Plant Cold Hardiness and Freezing Stress

ContributorsPrefacePart I Freezing Stress: An Overview An Overview of Freezing Injury and Survival, and Its Interrelationships to Other Stresses Freezing Processes and Injury in Plant Cells Analyses of Freezing Stresses and Plant Response Frost Hardening and Freezing Stress in Tuber-Bearing Solanum SpeciesPart II Membranes Plasma Membrane Alterations Following Cold Acclimation and Freezing Cell Membrane Properties in Relation to Freezing Injury Phospholipid Degradation and Its Control during Freezing of Plant CellsPart III Acclimation Mechanism of Cold Acclimation in Herbaceous Plants Protein Synthesis Mechanisms Relative to Cold Hardiness The Role of Water in Cold Hardiness of Winter Cereals Studies on Frost Hardiness in Chlorella ellipsoidea: Effects of Antimetabolites, Surfactants, Hormones, and Sugars on the Hardening Process in the Light and Dark Cold Acclimation of Callus Cultures of Jerusalem ArtichokePart IV Supercooling The Occurrence of Deep Undercooling in the Genera Pyrus, Prunus, and Rosa: A Preliminary Report Low Temperature Exotherms in Xylems of Evergreen and Deciduous Broadleaved Trees in Japan with References to Freezing Resistance and Distribution Range Resistance to Low Temperature Injury in Hydrated Lettuce Seed by Supercooling The Role of Bacterial Ice Nuclei in Frost Injury to Sensitive PlantsPart V Survival and Breeding Adapting Cold Hardiness Concepts to Deciduous Fruit Culture Effect of Solar Radiation on Frost Damage to Young Cryptomerias Freeze Survival of Citrus Trees in Florida Breeding and Selecting Temperate Fruit Crops for Cold Hardiness Breeding Frost-Resistant Potatoes for the Tropical HighlandsPart VI Cryopreservation and Cryoprotection Survival of Plant Germplasm in Liquid Nitrogen Ultracold Preservation of Seed Germplasm Effects of Combinations of Cryoprotectants on the Freezing Survival of Sugarcane Cultured CellsPart VII Special Topics Plant Cold Hardiness Seminar Summary and General Remarks Summary of the Papers Presented at the First European International Symposium on Winter Hardiness in Woody Perennials