Going to extremes: Low-temperature tolerance and acclimation in temperate and boreal conifers

Plant Cold Hardiness: From the Laboratory to the Field

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 226-239

  Strimbeck, G Richard ^a   Schaberg, Paul G ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

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