Plant Cold Hardiness and Freezing Stress. Mechanisms and Crop Implications

New York, Academic Press, 1978. orig.boards. 23x15cm, xii, 416 pp. Textual graphs,charts,tables. Corner bumped, slight tear to spine, VG. ¶ Contains 26 papers. Includes: J. Levitt "An Overview of Freezing Injury & Survival, & Its Interrelationships to Other Stresses"; E. Asahina " Freezing Processes & Injury in Plant Cells"; P.H. Li & J.P. Palta "Frost Hardening & Freezing Stress in Tuber-Bearing Solanum Species"; P.L. Steponkus & S.C.Wiest "Plasma Membrane Alterations Following Cold Acclimation & Freezing"; J.P. Palta & P.H. Li "Cell Membrane Properties in Relation to Freezing Injury"; S. Yoshida "Phospholipid Degradation & Its Control during Freezing of Plant Cells"; A. Kacperska-Palacz "Mechanism of Cold Acclimation in Herbaceous Plants"; G.N. Brown "Protein Synthesis Mechanisms Relative to Cold Hardiness"; P. Chen & L.V. Gusta "The Role of Water in Cold Hardiness of Winter Cereals"; S. Hatano "Studies on Frost Hardiness in Chlorella ellipsoidea: Effects of Antimetabolites, Surfactants, Hormones, & Sugars on the Hardening Process in the Light & Dark"; C. Rajashekar & M.J. Burke "The Occurence of Deep Undercooling in the Genera Pyrus, Prunus & Rosa: A Preliminary Report"; S.E. Lindow, et al:"The Role of Bacterial Ice Nuclei in Frost Injury to Sensitive Plants"; E. L. Proebsting "Adapting Cold Hardiness Concepts to Deciduous Fruit Culture" ; G. Yelenosky "Freeze Survival of Citrus Trees in Florida"; R.N. Estrada " Breeding Frost-Resistant Potatoes for the Tropical Highlands"; A.Sakai & Y. Sugawara "Survival of Plant Germplasm in Liquid Nitrogen"; P.C. Stanwood & L,.N. Bass "Ultracold Preservation of Seed Germplasm"; B.J. Finkle & J.M. Ulrich "Effects of Combinations of Cryoprotectants in the

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