Lyons J M. Chilling injury in plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. 24:445-66, 1973

This review article summarized the horticultural and physiological manifestations of chilling injury—a descriptive term for the physiological damage that occurs to many tropical and subtropical plants when exposed to low, but nonfreezing temperatures in the chilling range (generally 15°C down toO°C). Additionally, a proposed mechanism to describe how these low, but nonfreezing temperatures, could lead to this physiological damage was articulated, which proposed as the common event that of a temperature-induced phase transition in the cellular membranes as the primary response to chilling injury. [The SCI indicates that this paper has been cited in more than 515 publications.]