Comparative analysis of the cold acclimation and freezing tolerance capacities of seven diploid Brachypodium distachyon accessions

Annals of Botany

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 681-693

  Colton Gagnon, Katia ^a   Ali Benali, Mohamed Ali ^a   Mayer, Boris F ^a   Dionne, Rachel ^a   Bertrand, Annick ^b   Do Carmo, Sonia ^a   Charron, Jean Benoit ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brachypodium distachyon; cold acclimation; COR413; flowering; freezing tolerance; fructans; ice recrystallization inhibition; phenological development; proline; vernalization; VRN1; winter hardiness

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CEREAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CULTIVATION; FLOWERING; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GRASS; INHIBITION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; POLYPLOIDY; SUGAR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOLERANCE; VERNALIZATION;

FRUCTAN; PROLINE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BRACHYPODIUM; COLD; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COR413; DIPLOIDY; FLOWER; FLOWERING; FREEZING; FREEZING TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; ICE RECRYSTALLIZATION INHIBITION; METABOLISM; PHENOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; VERNALIZATION; VRN1; WINTER HARDINESS;

BRACHYPODIUM DISTACHYON; COLD ACCLIMATION; COR413; FLOWERING; FREEZING TOLERANCE; FRUCTANS; ICE RECRYSTALLIZATION INHIBITION; PHENOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; PROLINE; VERNALIZATION; VRN1; WINTER HARDINESS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BRACHYPODIUM; COLD TEMPERATURE; DIPLOIDY; FLOWERS; FREEZING; FRUCTANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROLINE;

EID: 84895796854     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct283     Document Type: Article

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