High accumulation of soluble sugars in deep supercooling Japanese white birch xylem parenchyma cells

New Phytologist

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 569-579

  Kasuga, Jun ^a   Arakawa, Keita ^a   Fujikawa, Seizo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cold acclimation; Deep supercooling; Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica); Soluble sugars; Subfreezing temperature; Xylem parenchyma cells

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE;

ACCUMULATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; LOW TEMPERATURE; SOLUBILITY; SUGAR; SUPERCOOLING; XYLEM;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIRCH; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMISTRY; COLD; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; TREE; XYLEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BETULA; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATES; COLD; TREES; XYLEM;

BETULA PLATYPHYLLA VAR. JAPONICA;

EID: 34247329555     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02025.x     Document Type: Article

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