Full Description
This volume is compiled based on the proceedings of the 5th International Plant Cold Hardiness Seminar, which was held at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, August 5 to 8, 1996. Participants representing 16 nations and 22 U. S. states attended the seminar. Researchers came from major laboratories around the world involving plant cold hardiness research. The information compiled in this volume represents the state-of the-art research and our understanding of plant cold hardiness in terms of molecular biol ogy, biochemistry, and physiology. The 1996 International Plant Cold Hardiness Seminar was the fifth of the series; it was first held in 1977 at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, and since then has met every 5 years. The overall goal of this seminar series is to foster the exchange of ideas and research findings among the diverse groups of scientists studying freezing and chilling stresses from a wide variety of perspectives. This is the only international conference focus ing its programs entirely on low temperature stress in plants. In accordance with the tradi tion, the fifth conference focused on freezing and chilling stress of plants and covered various aspects of plant cold hardiness, including molecular genetics, biochemistry, physi ology, and agricultural applications. All contributors to this volume are eminent researchers who have had significant contributions to the knowledge of plant cold hardiness.
Contents
I: Molecular Genetics of Cold Acclimation.- 1. Molecular Mechanism of Plant Cold Acclimation and Freezing Tolerance.- 2. Low Temperature Signal Transduction during Cold Acclimation of Alfalfa.- 3. Regulation of Plant Gene Expression in Response to Low Temperature.- 4. Constitutive Freezing Tolerant Mutants in Arabidopsis: A Genetic Approach to Signaling Transduction in Cold Acclimation.- 5. Arabidopsis Mutants Impaired in Freezing Tolerance after Cold Acclimation.- 6. Frost Hardiness and Cold Acclimation in Solarium Species.- 7. Understanding Genetic Control of Freezing Resistance Using Potato Species as a Model System.- 8. The Dicktoo x Morex Population: A Model for Dissecting Components of Winterhardiness in Barley.- 9. Mapping of Genes Controlling Cold Hardiness on Wheat 5A and Its Homologous Chromosomes of Cereals.- 10. Genetic Control of Cold Hardiness in Blueberry.- II: Biochemical and Physiological Mechanisms of Low Temperature Tolerance/Injury.- 11. Molecular Chaperones: Do They Have a Role in Cold Stress Responses of Plants?.- 12. Characterization of Antifreeze Proteins from Winter Rye.- 13. Protection of Thylakoid Membranes from Freeze-Thaw Damage by Proteins.- 14. Investigating the Role of Lipid Metabolism in Chilling and Freezing Tolerance.- 15. Effect of Cold Acclimation on Membrane Lipid Composition and Freeze-Induced Membrane Destablization.- 16. Regulation of Cold Acclimation: A Complex Interaction of Low Temperature, Light, and Chloroplastic Redox Poise.- 17. A Comparison of the Cold Hardiness Potential of Spring Cereals and Vernalized and Non-Vernalized Winter Cereals.- 18. Active Oxygen and Freezing Tolerance in Transgenic Plants.- 19. Abscisic Acid-Induced Chilling Tolerance in Maize.- 20. Molecular Mechanisms of Chilling-Induced Oxidative Stress Injury and Tolerance in Pre-Emergent Maize Seedlings.- 21. Characterization of Vacuolar H+-ATPases that Are Sensitive and Tolerant to Cold.- 22. Phytochrome Overexpression and Cold Hardiness in Transgenic Populus.- 23. Responses of Woody Plant Cells to Freezing: Investigations on the Role of the Plant Cell Wall.- 24. Cell Tension and Cavitation in Plants during Freezing: Their Role in Injury.- III: Modulation of Low Temperature Tolerance and Agricultural Implications.- 25. Involvement of Abscisic Acid and Proline in Cold Acclimation of Winter Wheat.- 26. Differential Accumulation of Oligosaccharides and Freezing Tolerance of Alfalfa.- 27. Oligosaccharides as Endogenous Cryoprotectants in Woody Plants.- 28. The Use of Infrared Video Thermography to Study Freezing in Plants.- 29. Breeding of Cold Hardy Woody Landscape Plants.- 30. Cold Hardiness Factors that Affect Nursery Production of Woody Plants in Southeastern United States.- 31. Winter Survival of Cereals Parasitized by Snow Mold.- 32. Biological Control of Snow Mold.- 33. Induction of Chilling Tolerance by Brief Abiotic Shocks.- Participants Photograph.
