Cold Hardiness in Trees: A Mini-Review

What Determines a Plant's Cold Hardiness?

near future because both our understanding of plant physiology and our ability to manipulate plant cold hardiness have improved. Without question, resistance to low temperatures is a major factor determining the geographic distribution of plant species. Socalled chillmg-sensitive plants, such as the tropical banana and the semitropical avocado, can be severely injured or even killed by long-ter...

Cold Hardiness of Woody Plants

stresses caused by their freezing and thawing. A key difference between a hardy plant and a non-hardy plant is believed to be where the ice forms in freezing: inside the living cells or outside of them. If ice forms inside of cells, it is almost always fatal to them, and this is probably the principal cause of frost kill in non-hardy plants. Normally hardy tissue may be killed by moderate tempe...

Measuring Cold Hardiness in Woody Plants

Factors Affecting Cold Hardiness in Grapevines

Out cold: biochemical regulation of mammalian hibernation - a mini-review.

Hibernating mammals offer an intriguing example of natural torpor and illustrate the regulatory mechanisms that control metabolic rate depression and the cell preservation strategies that support long-term viability in a hypometabolic state. These suggest applied strategies for improving the hypothermic preservation of human organs for transplant, and guidelines that could aid the development o...