This paper focuses on several selected cold-responsive plasma membrane proteins and examines their functions in direct relation to cold acclimatization. The proteins include dehydrins (ERD10 and ERD14), outer membrane lipoprotein-like protein (lipocalin-like: AtLCN), and DREPP-like protein and...

Cold acclimation-induced increase in freezing tolerance is associated with diverse changes in the plasma membrane, which ultimately results in an increase in the cryostability of the plasma membrane during a freeze-thaw excursion and an acceleration of the recovery process after thawing. Many...

Plants possess inducible tolerance mechanisms to temperature extremes that contribute to survival, yet many aspects of stress-inducible responses remain poorly understood. One example is the cold induction of pyruvate decarboxylase and alcohol dehydrogenase gene expression that has long been a...

This book contains 16 papers presenting the latest research findings on plant freezing and chilling stress from major laboratories around the world. They focus on various aspects of molecular genetics and, in many cases, the use of transgenic plants to further our understanding of plant cold...

This paper describes the molecular processes of drought and cold stress response and tolerance in plants. Functions of drought- and cold-inducible genes, regulation of their expression, and signal perception and signal transduction pathways in drought stress response and tolerance in plants are...

This paper reviews the recent experiments designed for the further understanding of the CBF cold response pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and tomato. The studies with Arabidopsis thaliana focus on determining the extent to which the CBF cold response pathway configures the low-temperature...

In a study conducted to determine the relationship between CBF genes and low-temperature (LT) tolerance of barley (Hordeum vulgare), results showed that: (1) barley has a large and complex CBF family; (2) the barley CBF family is representative in both size and complexity of CBF families of other...

This paper discusses the genetic identification of low-temperature tolerance loci in Triticeae, the Triticeae CBF gene family, strategy for testing whether the CBFs form the molecular basis of NT QLtt-1, and the structure of the genomic clones encompassing the barley 5H CBF genes.

This paper briefly describes frost impact on potato production and the changes in plants during cold acclimatization. It reports the latest results on the ectopic expression of Arabidopsis thaliana CBF1 (AtCBF1), its effect on enhancing freezing tolerance in wild and domesticated potato species via ...

This paper examines the effect of prior high-temperature exposure on the susceptibility of rice (cv. Kirara 397) seedlings to chilling injury, and evaluates the changes in L-ascorbate peroxidase (APX) activity and induction of transcription after exposure to high temperature in order to determine...