On Jan 30, 3:01 pm, " wrote:
Here's a review on plant cold acclimation. There are recent articles
listed at the bottom.

Thomashow, M.F. 2001. So What's New in the Field of Plant Cold
Acclimation? Lots! Plant Physiology 125: 89-93.http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/125/1/89

David R. Hershey

Interesting article.

bae mentioned in his response three techniques plants use:
dehydration
moving water to intercellular spaces
increasing solute concentration, for example by storing
monosacharides
in place of disacharides.

One more technique identified in the article was expression of a
polypeptide that decreased "the propensity of membranes to form
deleterious hexagonal II phase lipids upon freeze-induced
dehydration".

Just think what Lysenko would have given to know about all this :^)

Thanks.

Alan