Mechanisms of Freezing Tolerance in Plants
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 1190
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; chlorophyll fluorescence; cold de-acclimation; drought tolerance; freezing tolerance; functional genomics; winterhardiness
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
An increase in surface temperature of the Earth could, superficially, indicate a lower risk of plant exposure to extremely low temperatures. However, the risk of overwintering plants getting exposed to killing-frosts may have increased under the “climate-change” scenario. For example, warming episodes during autumn and winter can lead to inadequate cold acclimation of plants leaving them unprepared for winter. Secondly, sudden warming in early spring could cause premature deacclimation and ontogenetic development of non-dormant meristems, rendering them vulnerable to returning frosts. Additionally, warmer winters can result in depleted insulation by snow leaving; in particular, low-statured overwintering evergreens may be exposed to photooxidative injury by excess radiation.
This Special Issue is focused on how plants can sustain freezing when affected by environmental factors that are far from optimum for cold acclimation, hardiness maintenance, and photoprotection. We aim to include papers dealing with physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of such interactions in any kind of plant.
Prof. Dr. Marcin Rapacz
Dr. Magdalena Wójcik-Jagła
Prof. Dr. Rajeev Arora
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- cold acclimation
- freezing tolerance
- cold deacclimation
- gene regulation
- metabolism
- plant hormones
- plant signaling
- photosynthesis
- photooxidation
- photoprotection
- proteomics
- transcriptomics
- water relations
- winter hardiness
