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Zhang YJ, Bucci SJ, Arias NS, Scholz FG, Hao GY, Cao KF, Goldstein G. Freezing resistance in Patagonian woody shrubs: the role of cell wall elasticity and stem vessel size. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 36:1007-1018. [PMID: 27217529 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpw036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2015] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Freezing resistance through avoidance or tolerance of extracellular ice nucleation is important for plant survival in habitats with frequent subzero temperatures. However, the role of cell walls in leaf freezing resistance and the coordination between leaf and stem physiological processes under subzero temperatures are not well understood. We studied leaf and stem responses to freezing temperatures, leaf and stem supercooling, leaf bulk elastic modulus and stem xylem vessel size of six Patagonian shrub species from two sites (plateau and low elevation sites) with different elevation and minimum temperatures. Ice seeding was initiated in the stem and quickly spread to leaves, but two species from the plateau site had barriers against rapid spread of ice. Shrubs with xylem vessels smaller in diameter had greater stem supercooling capacity, i.e., ice nucleated at lower subzero temperatures. Only one species with the lowest ice nucleation temperature among all species studied exhibited freezing avoidance by substantial supercooling, while the rest were able to tolerate extracellular freezing from -11.3 to -20 °C. Leaves of species with more rigid cell walls (higher bulk elastic modulus) could survive freezing to lower subzero temperatures, suggesting that rigid cell walls potentially reduce the degree of physical injury to cell membranes during the extracellular freezing and/or thaw processes. In conclusion, our results reveal the temporal-spatial ice spreading pattern (from stem to leaves) in Patagonian shrubs, and indicate the role of xylem vessel size in determining supercooling capacity and the role of cell wall elasticity in determining leaf tolerance of extracellular ice formation.
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- Yong-Jiang Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Grupo de Estudios Biofísicos y Eco-fisiológicos (GEBEF), Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Comodoro Rivadavia 9000, Argentina
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Grupo de Estudios Biofísicos y Eco-fisiológicos (GEBEF), Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Comodoro Rivadavia 9000, Argentina
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Grupo de Estudios Biofísicos y Eco-fisiológicos (GEBEF), Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Comodoro Rivadavia 9000, Argentina
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- Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, The Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Microbial and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China
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- Department of Biology, University of Miami, PO Box 249118, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Nuñez, Buenos Aires C1428EGA, Argentina
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Teulières C, Feuillet C, Boudet AM. Differential characteristics of cell suspension cultures initiated from Eucalyptus gunnii clones differing by their frost tolerance. PLANT CELL REPORTS 1989; 8:407-410. [PMID: 24233364 DOI: 10.1007/bf00270080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/1989] [Revised: 07/19/1989] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Cell suspension cultures were initiated from two clones of Eucalyptus gunnii differing by their frost resistance.During cold treatments viability of the individual cell lines and of their protoplasts was correlated to the degree of frost resistance of the starting clones.Moreover, at moderate temperature (10°C) the growth rate was higher for the tolerant cells than for the sensitive ones.Free proline content was ten-fold higher in the resistant cell line than in the sensitive one whereas concentrations of other free amino-acids were equivalent.
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- C Teulières
- Centre de Physiologie Végétale de l'Université Paul Sabatier, URA 241, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062, Toulouse Cédex, France
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Rumich-Bayer S, Krause GH. Freezing damage and frost tolerance of the photosynthetic apparatus studied with isolated mesophyll protoplasts of Valerianella locusta L. PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 1986; 8:161-174. [PMID: 24443212 DOI: 10.1007/bf00035246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/1985] [Revised: 05/22/1985] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Mesophyll protoplasts were isolated from unhardened and cold-acclimated leaves of Valerianella locusta L. and subjected to freeze-thaw treatment. To evaluate the extent and course of freezing injury, photosynthetic reactions of whole protoplasts and of free thylakoid membranes, liberated from protoplasts by osmotic lysis, were measured. In addition, the integrity of the protoplasts was determined by microscopy. The results reveal an increased frost tolerance of protoplasts isolated from acclimated leaves with respect to all parameters measured. CO2-dependent O2 evolution (representing net photosynthetic CO2 fixation of protoplasts) was the most freezing-sensitive reaction; its inhibition due to freeze-thaw treatment of protoplasts was neither correlated with disintegration of the plasma membrane, nor was it initiated by inactivation of the thylakoid membranes. The frost-induced decline of protoplast integrity was not closely correlated to thylakoid damage either. Freezing injury of the thylakoid membranes was manifested by inhibition of photosynthetic electron transport and photophosphorylation. Both photosystems were affected by freezing and thawing with strongest inhibition occurring in the water-oxidation system or at the oxidizing site of photosystem II. Photophosphorylation responded more sensitively to freezing stress than electron transport, although uncoupling (increased permeability of the thylakoid membranes to protons) was not a conspicuous effect. The data are discussed in relation to freezing injury in leaves and seem to indicate that frost damage in vivo is initiated at multiple sites.
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- S Rumich-Bayer
- Botanisches Institut der Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, D-4000, Dusseldorf 1, Germany, FRG
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Orr W, Singh J, Brown DC. Induction of freezing tolerance in alfalfa cell suspension cultures. PLANT CELL REPORTS 1985; 4:15-18. [PMID: 24253636 DOI: 10.1007/bf00285495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/1984] [Revised: 12/07/1984] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The effects of ABA, 2,4-D, kinetin and cold exposure on the cold hardiness of Medicago sativa L. cell suspensions were investigated. Cultures treated with 5×10(-5) M ABA at 2°C for 4 weeks in the absence of kinetin showed a 50% survival after freezing to -12.5°C, whereas cultures grown at 25°C under normal conditions tolerated freezing to only -3°C. The optimum ABA treatment of 5×10(-5) M for 4 weeks was effective only in combination with cold exposure. Of six cell lines tested, all showed different degrees of induced cold hardiness. The results suggest that ABA alone cannot induce freezing tolerance on alfalfa cell suspension cultures and that the deletion of kinetin and combination of low temperature and ABA is critical for the induction of cold hardiness in alfalfa cell suspension cultures.
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- W Orr
- Chemistry and Biology Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, K1A OC6, Ottawa, Canada
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