Frost Resistance in Spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.): V. Influence of Photoperiod and Temperature on the Membrane Lipids of the Needles

Senser, Margot; Beck, Erwin

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“…6). To render plants chilling tolerant the composition of lipid molecular species and the ratio between proteins and lipids has to be adequate for membrane fluidity (Palta and Li, 1978;Senser and Beck, 1982 1974; St John and Christiansen, 1976;Ramalho et al, 2003). Transient undercooling may protect frost sensitive plants for a few hours against nocturnal reradiation frosts of -3 to -5 °C.…”

Section: Injury Patterns Of Cold and Frost And Acquisition Of Resistamentioning

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“…6). To render plants chilling tolerant the composition of lipid molecular species and the ratio between proteins and lipids has to be adequate for membrane fluidity (Palta and Li, 1978;Senser and Beck, 1982). Various cultivated plants with tropical origins have been successfully conditioned to the cold (e.g., Wilson and Crawford, 1974;St John and Christiansen, 1976;Ramalho et al, 2003).…”

Section: Injury Patterns Of Cold and Frost And Acquisition Of Resistamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Climatic Constraints Drive the Evolution of Low Temperature Resistance in Woody Plants

Larcher

2005

J. Agric. Meteorol.

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Cold and frost are stress factors of widespread occurrence for plants. They damage woody plants due to chilling temperatures in the tropics, by freezing sensitive plants in regions with episodic frosts and temperatures down to -10 °C, and by freezing of even tolerant plants in regions with cold winters below -10 and -40 °C. The wide range of frost resistances in plants from different climatic zones indicates that the ability to become hardened to freezing has evolved in a stepwise process. There are opinions how an evolutionary acquisition of freezing tolerance could have taken place in the following way: First there is a differentiation of better adapted ecotypes and in the long term a series of functional plant groups develop along climatic gradients. Frequent climatic stress and climatic changes stimulate the selection of new genotypes resistant to climatic extremes. Furthermore, plants exposed to multiple stress factors in their habitat acquire a general cross tolerance to climatic constraints.The objective of this review is the understanding of low temperature resistance in woody plants, e.g. stabilization of biomembranes by lipid composition, deep supercooling, and ability to become freezing tolerant during winter dormancy. An over a hundred year long history of investigating frost stress and survival of different plant species has brought about an important understanding of basic processes. Recently antifreeze proteins which slow the freezing processes, and proteins, which protect the protoplasm against low temperature, frost and dehydration have been discovered. Findings that help to explain the mechanisms for coping with low temperature will be applicable to agriculture, horticulture, forestry and bioclimatology. The objective of this review is the understanding of basic processes of low temperature stress and the evolutionary adaptation of resistance in woody plants. 'Adaptation' is the response of plants to changing environmental conditions; it may be transitory (phenotypic) or permanent (genotypic). 'Evolutionary adaptation' is used here in the sense of genetically determined.The first descriptive investigations of frost damage and freezing resistance in different plant species were carried out very early e.g., Sachs (1860), Müller Thurgau (1886), Molisch (1897). From the middle of the last century onwards intensive analytical investigations of cytological, biophysical and biochemical mechanisms were made on plant organs and tissues (e.g., Asahina, 1956;Heber, 1968;Siminovitch et al., 1968; Krasavtsev, 1972;Burke et al., 1976), and general conclusions were drawn from these results (e.g., Levitt, 1980; Tumanov, 1979). Recently our knowledge of low temperature stress and frost resistance has been advanced due to molecular biological methods. Nowadays certain polypeptides and proteins which trigger controlled freezing and which protect the protoplasm against low temperature, frost and dehydration are known. All findings that help to explain mechanisms for coping with low temperature will have ...

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Section: Injury Patterns Of Cold and Frost And Acquisition Of Resistamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…6). To render plants chilling tolerant the composition of lipid molecular species and the ratio between proteins and lipids has to be adequate for membrane fluidity (Palta and Li, 1978;Senser and Beck, 1982). Various cultivated plants with tropical origins have been successfully conditioned to the cold (e.g., Wilson and Crawford, 1974;St John and Christiansen, 1976;Ramalho et al, 2003).…”

Section: Injury Patterns Of Cold and Frost And Acquisition Of Resistamentioning

confidence: 99%

Climatic Constraints Drive the Evolution of Low Temperature Resistance in Woody Plants

Larcher

2005

J. Agric. Meteorol.

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“…Changes of frost hardiness in spruce chloroplasts are accompanied by changes of the lipid: protein ratio in favor of the lipids and by a desaturation of the lipid fatty acids resulting in a lower viscosity of the membrane system and the envelope (Senser and Beck 1982a). With small spruce trees which we cultivated for at least 3 years under different combinations of day length and temperatures we showed that the changes in membrane lipids could never be separated from the degree of frost resistance and that short-day conditions as well as subzero temperatures induced these changes (Senser and Beck 1982b). The changes in lipid composition could also be related to the photosynthetic capacity, as indicated by an Arrhenius plot of the Hill reaction.…”

Section: Frost Hardening Of Plants Part Imentioning

confidence: 86%

Torn Between Nature and Lab: A Dying Breed of Plant Scientists?

Beck

2016

Progress in Botany

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“…Levitt (1980) reported that long exposure of tropical and subtropical plants to cold may help them to develop increased tolerance to cold. Adaptation to cold involves a cascade of changes such as membrane lipid desaturation (Senser and Beck 1982), attenuation of the photosystems (Vogg et al 1998;Ottander et al 1995) but increase of the capability of using light energy for cyclic electron transport and photophosphorylation (Senser and Beck 1977), transition from the common starch-dominated carbohydrate metabolism to an oligosaccharidedominated metabolism, using sucrose and its galactosides as cryoprotectants (Hansen et al 1996). Other changes, such as the enhancement of the radical scavenging system may likewise contribute to frost hardening, as in the yew tree (Taxus x media) (Verhoeven et al 2005).…”

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Development of mulberry varieties for sustainable growth and leaf yield in temperate and subtropical regions of India

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Sericulture is an agro-based industry, which heavily depends on mulberry (Morus spp.) for its sustainability, as mulberry leaf is the only available feed for the silkworm Bombyx mori L. Sericulture, in West Bengal and other subtropical regions in India, suffers from lack of adequate quantity of quality mulberry leaf during the colder months, the best season for rearing the high yielding bivoltine silkworm hybrids. In order to develop mulberry varieties, which can sustain normal growth during these colder months to yield better, efforts have been made in different research institutes in India. The present report is part of such an effort in which accessions in germplasm bank were screened for better growth, leaf retention and leaf yield contributing associated traits. Twenty three selected parents were crossed, 3,500 seeds were sown, 2,700 seedlings were transplanted to progeny row trail, selected 210 hybrids were evaluated under primary yield trial and finally nine hybrids along with a control variety were studied in detail for all leaf yield contributing traits under final yield trial. Stability analysis was adopted to identify hybrids, which can yield stably across seasons. The hybrids CT-44 and CT-11 out yielding the control by 17.17 and 7.11% were selected as these hybrids yield 7.93 and 8.15 mt/ha leaf respectively during the colder months (February) for their direct use as cultivars in West Bengal and other subtropical areas of India to sustain bivoltine sericulture to produce quality and gradable silk fibers.

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Frost Resistance in Spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.): V. Influence of Photoperiod and Temperature on the Membrane Lipids of the Needles

Cited by 38 publications

References 16 publications

Climatic Constraints Drive the Evolution of Low Temperature Resistance in Woody Plants

Climatic Constraints Drive the Evolution of Low Temperature Resistance in Woody Plants

Torn Between Nature and Lab: A Dying Breed of Plant Scientists?

Development of mulberry varieties for sustainable growth and leaf yield in temperate and subtropical regions of India

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