Cryopreservation of phytodiversity: a critical appraisal of theory & practice

EE Benson - Critical reviews in Plant sciences, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Cryopreservation is the storage of viable cells, tissues, organs and organisms at ultra-low
temperatures, usually in liquid nitrogen to a minimum temperature of− 196° C. The term …

There and back again; historical perspective and future directions for Vaccinium breeding and research studies

PP Edger, M Iorizzo, NV Bassil… - Horticulture …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The genus Vaccinium L.(Ericaceae) contains a wide diversity of culturally and
economically important berry crop species. Consumer demand and scientific research in …

Understanding plant cold hardiness: an opinion

LV Gusta, M Wisniewski - Physiologia plantarum, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
How plants adapt to freezing temperatures and acclimate to survive the formation of ice
within their tissues has been a subject of study for botanists and plant scientists since the …

The ocean sampling day consortium

A Kopf, M Bicak, R Kottmann, J Schnetzer, I Kostadinov… - Gigascience, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial
Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine …

RNA-Seq analysis and annotation of a draft blueberry genome assembly identifies candidate genes involved in fruit ripening, biosynthesis of bioactive compounds …

V Gupta, AD Estrada, I Blakley, R Reid, K Patel… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background Blueberries are a rich source of antioxidants and other beneficial compounds
that can protect against disease. Identifying genes involved in synthesis of bioactive …

Breeding blueberries for a changing global environment: a review

GA Lobos, JF Hancock - Frontiers in plant science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Today, blueberries are recognized worldwide as one of the foremost health foods, becoming
one of the crops with the highest productive and commercial projections. Over the last 100 …

Genomics of cold hardiness in woody plants

M Wisniewski, A Nassuth, C Teulieres… - Critical Reviews in …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The term cold hardiness or freezing tolerance is used to represent, in a general sense, the
ability of plants to adapt to and withstand freezing temperatures. It is a complex, multigenic …

Generation and analysis of blueberry transcriptome sequences from leaves, develo** fruit, and flower buds from cold acclimation through deacclimation

LJ Rowland, N Alkharouf, O Darwish, EL Ogden… - BMC plant biology, 2012 - Springer
Background There has been increased consumption of blueberries in recent years fueled in
part because of their many recognized health benefits. Blueberry fruit is very high in …

De novo sequencing and comparative analysis of the blueberry transcriptome to discover putative genes related to antioxidants

X Li, H Sun, J Pei, Y Dong, F Wang, H Chen, Y Sun… - Gene, 2012 - Elsevier
Blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) is an important small fruit crop rich in antioxidants. However,
tissue-specific transcriptome and genomic data in public databases are not sufficient for an …

Vaccinium

GQ Song, JF Hancock - Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding …, 2010 - Springer
Genus Vaccinium consists of approximately 450 species, of which the most important are
found in the sections Cyanococcus, Oxycoccus, Vitis-Idaea, Myrtillus, and Vaccinium. Three …