The use of antifreeze proteins for frost protection in sensitive crop plants

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 106, Issue , 2014, Pages 60-69

  Duman, John G ^a   Wisniewski, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b APPALACHIAN FRUIT RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Antifreeze proteins; Plant cold tolerance; Plant frost injury; Prevention of plant frost injury; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CROP PLANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FROST HARDINESS; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEIN; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84903900618     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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