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Modeling sequential responses of plant cells to freezing and thawing

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Cold-Adapted Organisms

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The geographic distribution of many perennial and biennial temperate plant species is determined largely by the minimum temperature encountered during the winter and the ability of the plants to survive winter temperatures at which the bulk of plant water will freeze.1 Although many temperate plants achieve winter survival by avoiding ice crystallization, most species that overwinter in a vegetative state are tolerant to the growth of ice crystals in their tissues.2 Plants respond to low temperature and ice formation through molecular interaction3 and thermodynamic and kinetic processes.4,5 Freezing injury is influenced by the rate of freezing, depth of freezing, solute composition, rate of thawing1 and degree and duration of dehydration.2 Plants are complex organisms with many internal microscopic structures and it is not yet known how the growth of ice in plant tissues results in injury.

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  1. Crop Utilization Research, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 0X2

    M. J. T. Reaney

  2. Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, 51 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 5A8

    L. V. Gusta

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Reaney, M.J.T., Gusta, L.V. (1999). Modeling sequential responses of plant cells to freezing and thawing. In: Margesin, R., Schinner, F. (eds) Cold-Adapted Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06285-2_7

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