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Chilling stress

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Stress and Stress Coping in Cultivated Plants

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The concept of optimal growth temperatures is a fundamental principle in biology. Since living organisms cannot control environmental temperature, they have evolved two major strategies for surviving extreme temperatures — they either avoid the stress, or tolerate it. The avoidance mechanism is most obvious in warm blooded animals that maintain their bodies at a constant temperature. With the exception of a few plants that generate heat by metabolism (Knutson 1974), plants must avoid seasonal extremes in temperature by other mechanisms. Although plants have developed strategies to tolerate the range of temperatures common to their habitant, injury may occur in a new environment, or when temperature extremes exceed the norm. Of course, modern agriculture and consumer preferences cause crop plants to be grown in regions where it is more economical to grow them, but where they may be only marginally adapted.

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  1. Crop Science Department, University of Guelph, NIG 2W1, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Bryan D. Mckersie (Professor)

  2. Department of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, 52900, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Ya’acov Y. Leshem (Professor of Plant Physiology)

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Mckersie, B.D., Leshem, Y.Y. (1994). Chilling stress. In: Stress and Stress Coping in Cultivated Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3093-8_4

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