Freezing tolerance of plants: Current understanding and selected emerging concepts

Canadian Journal of Botany

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1216-1223

  Guy, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic; Dehydration; Gene expression; Physiology; Signal transduction; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; GENES; ICE; OSMOSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRESSES; TISSUE;

FREEZING STRESS; OSMOTIC STRESS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BOTANY;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 1642329782     PISSN: 00084026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/b03-130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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