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Freezing Stress in Tree Xylem

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Progress in Botany 77

Part of the book series: Progress in Botany ((BOTANY,volume 77))

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Freezing in plant xylem is a complex process affecting living and dead components. This book chapter gives a brief overview of methods for analyzing freezing dynamics and tissue damage and focuses on the effects of freezing stress in the xylem symplast and apoplast. Survival strategies, such as supercooling, extracellular freezing, or avoidance of critical bubble formation/expansion in conduits are discussed, and insights from experimental and field studies available in the literature summarized. The final part deals with trees at the Alpine timberline, which are exposed to intense freezing as well as extreme drought stress every winter. Timberline trees are thus an interesting model system to study combined effects of drought and freezing stress in tree xylem and respective avoidance, tolerance, and repair strategies of plants.

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This review was prepared in the frame of the project I826-B25 “Acoufreeze” funded by the Austrian and French research agencies (FWF and ANR), respectively. We thank Georg Leitinger, Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, for providing the thermographic camera. We thank Prof. Rainer Matyssek and the anonymous reviewer for thoughtful comments and help to improve the manuscript.

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Mayr, S., Améglio, T. (2016). Freezing Stress in Tree Xylem. In: Lüttge, U., Cánovas, F., Matyssek, R. (eds) Progress in Botany 77. Progress in Botany, vol 77. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25688-7_13

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