Cherry trees protect buds from freezing by supercooling, but how?
Researchers at UBC Okanagan are working to learn more about how sweet cherry trees naturally protect their buds from freezing ...
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Cherry trees keep their buds super-cool in winter
Dr. Elizabeth Houghton recently graduated from the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science’s Department of Biology. Her latest ...
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Plants have an amazing ability to 'rewire' themselves to survive winter
Plants survive cold by adjusting at cellular level. Scientists discovered that the PORCUPINE protein helps plants adapt to ...
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Biostimulants Could Provide Extra Layer of Cold Protection for Plants
Biostimulant-treated plants often resume normal physiological processes more quickly, translating into healthier fruit set ...
The Scientist1y
Illuminating the Plant Gene Map
Researchers commonly use single-cell transcriptomics to sequence ... different environmental stresses such as warming or freezing temperatures and even pathogen attacks,” said Nobori. “Because plant ...
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Cold weather
Cold weather, particularly frost, causes the water in plant cells to freeze, damaging the cell wall. Frost-damaged plants are easy to spot, their growth becomes limp, blackened and distorted.
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Another freeze to set in across SC. Here are some ways to save your plants.
Freezing temperatures cause plant cells to burst as ice crystals form, according to Clemson Cooperative Extension. Temperatures above 32 degrees can be low enough to damage or kill many tropical ...