Frost resistance in alpine woody plants

Ice barriers promote supercooling and prevent frost injury in reproductive buds, flowers and fruits of alpine dwarf shrubs throughout the summer

(2014) Edith Kuprian et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Increased spring freezing vulnerability for alpine shrubs under early snowmelt

(2014) J. A. Wheeler et al.   OECOLOGIA

Adaptive mechanisms of freeze avoidance in plants: A brief update

(2013) Michael Wisniewski et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

How endangered is sexual reproduction of high-mountain plants by summer frosts? Frost resistance, frequency of frost events and risk assessment

(2013) Ursula Ladinig et al.   OECOLOGIA

Dehydration and osmotic adjustment in apple stem tissue during winter as it relates to the frost resistance of buds

(2013) M. Pramsohler et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Current and emerging screening methods to identify post-head-emergence frost adaptation in wheat and barley

(2012) T. M. Frederiks et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Winter frost resistance of Pinus cembra measured in situ at the alpine timberline as affected by temperature conditions

(2011) O. Buchner et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Tree seasonality in a warming climate

(2011) Heikki Hänninen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Coldest places on earth with angiosperm plant life

(2011) Christian Körner   Alpine Botany

Impacts of extreme winter warming events on plant physiology in a sub-Arctic heath community

(2010) Stef Bokhorst et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Inflorescences of alpine cushion plants freeze autonomously and may survive subzero temperatures by supercooling

(2010) Jürgen Hacker et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Velocity and pattern of ice propagation and deep supercooling in woody stems of Castanea sativa, Morus nigra and Quercus robur measured by IDTA

(2010) G. Neuner et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Critically reduced frost resistance of Picea abies during sprouting could be linked to cytological changes

(2009) G. Neuner et al.   PROTOPLASMA

A low-temperature freezing system to study the effects of temperatures to -70  C on trees in situ

(2009) O. Buchner et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Ice Propagation in Dehardened Alpine Plant Species Studied by Infrared Differential Thermal Analysis (IDTA)

(2008) Jürgen Hacker et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Mesophyll freezing and effects of freeze dehydration visualized by simultaneous measurement of IDTA and differential imaging chlorophyll fluorescence

(2008) JÜRGEN HACKER et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT