Claim · model-written summary
Freezing tolerance in higher plants is a complex quantitative trait involving many genes.
- Taxon
- higher plantsEmbryophytae0
- Gene
- genese0
- Outcome
- tolerate freezing stresse0
- Qualifier
- complex quantitative traite0
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Verbatim
e0“The ability of higher plants to acclimate and tolerate freezing stress is a complex quantitative trait and the product of the activities of not one, but a sizable suite of genes”
Title
Freezing tolerance of plants: current understanding and selected emerging concepts
Charles L Guy Canadian Journal of Botany 2003. doi:10.1139/b03-130
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Mechanism Ice formation and redistribution of water to extracellular ice physically stress plant cells.
- Mechanism CBF/DREB1 controls many known cold-regulated genes but is unlikely to be the sole master regulator.
- Mechanism Freezing tolerance in higher plants has been suggested to originate through adoption of drought tolerance mechanisms.
- Observation Many cold responsive plant genes are also responsive to drought or other osmotic stresses.