A team of botanists in Japan have overturned decades-old assumptions about how cold stress leads to pollen sterility in rice.
Tag - cold stress
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Tea buds are prepared for the cold by remembering past weather
Cold hardiness, acclimating and de-acclimating from cold temperatures can help plants prevent or reduce frost damage to their tissues. Through complex molecular networks, plants can improve their responses to repeated...
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Can a cold snap put a stop to sex?
The alpine plant Ranunculus kuepferi can face spring frosts while growing reproductive organs. Does the cold explain why sometimes the plant doesn't bother with sex?
CsbZIP6 is a negative regulator of cold response in transgenic arabidopsis
The tea plant CsbZIP6 transcription factor functions as a negative regulator of the cold stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana, potentially by down-regulating cold-responsive genes. Wang et al. find that constitutive...
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