The role of cold-responsive genes in frost resistance of cereals — a review

Magdalena Gut

m.gut@ihar.edu.pl
Zakład Roślin Zbożowych, Instytut Hodowli i Aklimatyzacji Roślin, Oddział w Krakowie (Poland)

Abstract

Acclimation mechanisms that allow winter cereals to survive freezing temperature are genetically programmed and involve a great number of genes, which are induced and regulated by low temperature. In this review recent findings in determining the function of genes induced by low temperature and their role in freezing tolerance are described. These results summarized here allow further understanding the basic mechanisms that plants have evolved to survive freezing temperatures. In addition, these findings have potential practical implications in selection and breeding of winter cereals cultivars resistant to unfavourable winter conditions.


Keywords:

cold induced genes, cereals, frost resistance

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2001-09-28

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Gut, M. (2001) “The role of cold-responsive genes in frost resistance of cereals — a review”, Bulletin of Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute, (218/219), pp. 29–37. doi: 10.37317/biul-2001-0031.

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Magdalena Gut 
m.gut@ihar.edu.pl
Zakład Roślin Zbożowych, Instytut Hodowli i Aklimatyzacji Roślin, Oddział w Krakowie Poland

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