Warming in the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest on earth, and is predicted to become more asymmetric in the near future. Warming has already favored the growth and reproduction of Antarctic plant species, leading to a decrease in their freez...
We analyzed the transcriptomes in the shoots of five-year-old ‘Soomee’ peach trees (Prunus persica) during cold acclimation (CA), from early CA (end of October) to late CA (middle of January), and deacclimation (DA), from late CA to late...
Plants such as winter crops are able to acclimate to low temperatures through complex physiological and biochemical modifications that enhance their frost tolerance. Cold acclimation involves changes in, e.g., photosynthetic efficiency, carbohydrate...
Winter plants acclimate to frost mainly during the autumn months, through the process of cold acclimation. Global climate change is causing changes in weather patterns such as the occurrence of warmer periods during late autumn or in winter. An incre...
Global climate change, which is connected to global warming and changes in weather patterns, affects various parts of the environment, including the growth/development of plants. Generally, a number of plant species are capable of acquiring tolerance...
Climate changes, which result in the occurrence of periods with relatively high temperatures during the winter, can lead to the deacclimation of cold-hardened plants and cause problems with their winter survival. The aim of these studies was to inves...
Global climate change is causing increasing fluctuations in winter temperatures, including episodes of warm conditions above 9 °C. Such events disrupt cold acclimation in plants and can induce deacclimation, reducing frost tolerance and altering,...
Low temperature during cold acclimation (CA) leads to the accumulation of detrimental reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plant tissues, which are scavenged by antioxidants, such as ascorbate and glutathione. However, there is a lack of studies examinin...
Winter oilseed rape achieves frost tolerance through cold acclimation, which develops naturally in autumn in response to low but non-freezing temperatures. However, ongoing climate change has led to an increasing instability in winter temperatures, w...
Seasonal growth patterns of perennial plants are linked to patterns of acclimation and de-acclimation to seasonal stresses. The timing of cold acclimation (development of freezing resistance) and leaf growth cessation in autumn, and the timing of de-...
The ability of Ribes species to survive the fluctuating winter and early spring conditions, relies on the regulation of transcription factors (TFs) and other key genes involved in the abiotic stress response. In this study, we developed specific prim...
The American elm (Ulmus americana L.), once a dominant species in North American floodplain forests, has suffered significant population declines due to Dutch elm disease (DED). Despite this, some elms persist, potentially exhibiting disease resistan...
The aim of the current work was to characterize disturbances in the hormonal balance and changes in the accumulation of the protective heat shock proteins (HSP) as a result of deacclimation in a few cultivars of oilseed rape. Samples for both analyse...
The objective of this study was to answer the question of how the deacclimation process affects frost tolerance, photosynthetic efficiency, brassinosteroid (BR) homeostasis and BRI1 expression of winter oilseed rape. A comparative study was conducted...
Mechanisms involved in the de-acclimation of herbaceous plants caused by warm periods during winter are poorly understood. This study identifies the genes associated with this mechanism in winter barley. Seedlings of eight accessions (four tolerant a...
Information concerning genes and signals regulating cold acclimation processes in plants is abundant; however, less is known about genes and signals regulating the deacclimation process. A population of primarily winter B. napus varieties was used to...
Ecdysteroids (ECs) are steroid hormones originally found in the animal kingdom where they function as insect molting hormones. Interestingly, a relatively high number of these substances can also be formed in plant cells. Moreover, ECs have certain r...
Winter survival in barley depends on freezing tolerance and de-acclimation tolerance, yet their genetic determinants under increasingly unstable winters remain poorly understood. Here, 188 Polish barley accessions were evaluated over two consecutive...
The Antarctic Peninsula has rapidly warmed up in past decades, and global warming has exhibited an asymmetric trend; therefore, it is interesting to understand whether nocturnal or diurnal warming is the most relevant for plant cold deacclimation. Th...
Cold acclimation (CA) is a strategy which plants have evolved to increase freezing tolerance. Global climate change could obstruct CA and raise the probability of winter injury, especially for evergreens. Hence, understanding the regulatory mechanism...
Grapevine sustainability is impacted by the timing of dormancy initiation and freezing tolerance in fall and winter and chilling fulfillment and bud break in the spring. These traits have genetic and local temperature contributing factors; therefore,...
Cold stress is one of the major abiotic stresses limiting tea production. The planting of cold-resistant tea cultivars is one of the most effective measures to prevent chilling injury. However, the differences in cold resistance between tea cultivars...
Magnolia wufengensis L.Y. Ma et L. R. Wang, a rare species which has been introduced and cultivated from southern China to northern China, frequently suffers from freezing injuries. To figure out the influence of ethephon (ETH) application on the col...
In nature or field conditions, plants are frequently exposed to diverse environmental stressors. Among abiotic stresses, the low temperature of freezing conditions is a critical factor that influences plants, including horticultural crops, decreasing...
Low temperature causes injuries to plants during winter, thereby it affects kiwi fruit quality and yield. However, the changes in metabolites and gene expression during cold acclimation (CA) and deacclimation (DA) in kiwi fruit remain largely unknown...