Plant cryopreservation: Principles, applications, and challenges of banking plant diversity at ultralow temperatures

M Nagel, V Pence, D Ballesteros… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Progressive loss of plant diversity requires the protection of wild and agri-/horticultural
species. For species whose seeds are extremely short-lived, or rarely or never produce …

Epigenetic stress memory in gymnosperms

CG Fossdal, P Krokene, JE Olsen, R Strimbeck… - Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Gymnosperms are long-lived, cone-bearing seed plants that include some of the most
ancient extant plant species. These relict land plants have evolved to survive in habitats …

A large-effect fitness trade-off across environments is explained by a single mutation affecting cold acclimation

G Lee, BJ Sanderson, TJ Ellis… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Identifying the genetic basis of local adaptation and fitness trade-offs across environments is
a central goal of evolutionary biology. Cold acclimation is an adaptive plastic response for …

From common gardens to candidate genes: exploring local adaptation to climate in red spruce

T Capblancq, S Lachmuth, MC Fitzpatrick… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Local adaptation to climate is common in plant species and has been studied in a range of
contexts, from improving crop yields to predicting population maladaptation to future …

Radiation‐constrained boundaries cause nonuniform responses of the carbon uptake phenology to climatic warming in the Northern Hemisphere

A Descals, A Verger, G Yin, I Filella, YH Fu… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climatic warming has lengthened the photosynthetically active season in recent decades,
thus affecting the functioning and biogeochemistry of ecosystems, the global carbon cycle …

Overexpression of the FERONIA receptor kinase MdMRLK2 enhances apple cold tolerance

Y **g, T Pei, C Li, D Wang, Q Wang, Y Chen… - The Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cold is one of the main abiotic stresses in temperate fruit crops, affecting the yield and fruit
quality of apple in China and European countries. The plant receptor‐like kinase FERONIA …

Cold-season freeze frequency is a pervasive driver of subcontinental forest growth

MP Girardin, XJ Guo, D Gervais… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
As northern latitudes experience rapid winter warming, there is an urgent need to assess the
effect of varying winter conditions on tree growth and forest carbon sequestration potential …

Integrating experiments to predict interactive cue effects on spring phenology with warming

EM Wolkovich, CJ Chamberlain, DM Buonaiuto… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change has advanced plant phenology globally 4–6 d° C− 1 on average. Such
shifts are some of the most reported and predictable biological impacts of rising …

Snowmelt water use at transpiration onset: Phenology, isotope tracing, and tree water transit time

MF Nehemy, J Maillet, N Perron… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of tree water source partitioning have primarily focused on the growing season.
However, little is yet known about the source of transpiration before, during, and after …

Seasonality and directionality effects on radar backscatter are key to identify mountain forest types with Sentinel-1 data

I Borlaf-Mena, J García-Duro, M Santoro… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Systematic Sentinel-1 acquisitions provide an unprecedented stream of SAR data which
allows to describe forest temporal dynamics in detail, a powerful tool for phenological …