Ice barriers promote supercooling and prevent frost injury in reproductive buds, flowers and fruits of alpine dwarf shrubs throughout the summer

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 106, Issue , 2014, Pages 4-12

  Kuprian, Edith ^a   Briceño, Verónica F ^b   Wagner, Johanna ^a   Neuner, Gilbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alpine ecology; Biological ice nucleation; Frost injury; Ice propagation; Infrared video thermography; Supercooling

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; FROST HARDINESS; INJURY; NUCLEATION; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SUMMER; SUPERCOOLING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WOODY PLANT;

CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS; EMPETRUM HERMAPHRODITUM; KALMIA PROCUMBENS;

EID: 84903883225     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2014.01.011     Document Type: Article

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