Due to an increase in the consumption of food, feed, and fuel and to meet global food
security needs for the rapidly growing human population, there is a necessity to obtain high …

Among all the environmental stresses, temperature stress, especially cold stress, has been
reported to have very wide and far-reaching consequences on various agricultural and …

Low temperature is a major environmental stress for plants. Many important cultivated crops
have limited capacity to survive below freezing/subfreezing temperatures. Low inorganic …

Introduction The Camellia oleifera (C. oleifera) cultivars' Huashuo'(HS) and'Huaxin'(HX) are
new high-yielding and economically valuable cultivars that frequently encounter prolonged …

Medicago falcata is a legume species that exhibits great capacity of tolerance to abiotic
stresses. To elucidate the mechanism underlying tolerance of M. falcata to freezing, we …

The perennity of grassland species such as Lolium perenne greatly depends on their ability
to regrow after cutting or grazing. Refoliation largely relies on the mobilization of fructans in …

Background Activation of numerous protective mechanisms during cold acclimation is
important for the acquisition of freezing tolerance in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) …

Most cultivars of Vitis vinifera L. are very sensitive to cold. As an exogenous protectant,
Biodegradable Liquid Film (BLF) is considered to protect winegrapes from low temperatures …

Variation in the structures of plant fructans and their degree of polymerization (DP) can be
explained as the result of diverse combinations of fructosyltransferases (FTs) with different …

Effects of the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus Glomus tortuosum on carbon (C) and
nitrogen (N) metabolism of Zea mays L. grown under low-temperature stress was …