Cold hardiness in plants : molecular genetics, cell biology and physiology /

• Corporate Author: International Plant Cold Hardiness Seminar
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Plants > Congresses. > Frost resistance; Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Weeds and Noxious Plants.; Environmental Tolerance of Plants.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Arabidopsis thaliana.; Betula pendula.; Plants.; Acclimatization.; Cereals.; Chilling.; Cold.; Cold resistance.; Cold stress.; Frost.; Frost resistance.; Genes.; Genetic engineering.; Genetic transformation.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Growth.; Molecular genetics.; Plant development.; Plant physiology.; Plasma membranes.; Stress.; Stress response.; Surface proteins.; Transgenic plants.; Vernalization.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Item Description: Based on presentations at the 7th International Plant Cold Hardiness Seminar (7th IPCHS) held at the Conference Hall of Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, from 10 to 15 July 2004.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access: Access limited to subscribing institution.

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 hardiness at the molecular level. Other papers include: vernalization genes in winter cereals; global analysis of gene networks to solve complex abiotic stress responses; control of growth and cold acclimatization in silver birch (Betula pendula); and the effect of plasma membrane-associated proteins on the acquisition of freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. This book is intended for researchers in plant physiology and plant development, ecology and genetics.