Sugarcane, accounting for 80% of world's sugar, originates in the tropics but is cultivated mainly in the subtropics. Therefore, chilling injury frequently occurs and results in serious losses. Recent studies in various plant species have established microRNAs as key elements in the post-transcriptional regulation of response to biotic and abiotic stresses including cold stress. Though, its acc...

Cold stress is an ‎important limiting factor for cereal production. Barley is a host species for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) with a high genetic diversity in response to cold stress. In order to explore the mechanisms for the ameliorative effect of AMF under cold stress, an experiment was undertaken using completely randomized block design with three factors including temperature treatme...

winter sown chickpeas produce more yields in comparison with spring type. this function is hampered by the sensitivity of the crop to low temperature. in order to study and identify high yielding and cold tolerant chickpea (cicer arietinum l.) lines, 65 entries along with one susceptible check variety namely ilc533 were evaluated in a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with two replication...

cold stress during the beginning of the season usually causes damage to rice plants in the north of iran. in this study, the expression of four genes namely osp5cs2, osttp1, oscoin and oslti6a, was studied in 14-day-old seedlings of a cold tolerance pr genotype and a cold sensitive hashemi variety during cold stress (5°c for 24h) by means of differential display method. pcr products were quanti...

Flat grain beetles (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae) are common stored-product insect pests in Canada, infesting cereals bins, equipment and end products flour mills. We studied the cold tolerance of three most flat beetles: Cryptolestes ferrugineus, turcicus pusillus, by measuring survival at −10 °C supercooling point (SCP) for different life stages (egg, young larva, old pupa adult) reared on mixe...

Stand problems consistently cause significant production losses and management problems in Arkansas rice fields. Previous research, funded by the Rice Research and Promotion Board, identified the role of environmental factors and soilborne plant pathogens in limiting rice stand establishment, and had the goal of determining the conditions where soilborne pathogens, especially Pythium species, p...

Factors affecting the susceptibility of Bacteroides fragilis subsp. fragilis to low temperature were examined. Predetermined numbers of cells were spread on agar media or suspended in enriched Trypticase soy broth and exposed to low temperature under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Exposure of 18-h growth of a freshly isolated B. fragilis strain to 4 degrees C aerobically or anaerobicall...