Bookedited by Dirk K. Hincha, Ellen Zuther.
Contents:
Introduction : plant cold acclimation and freezing tolerance / Dirk K. Hincha and Ellen Zuther
Measuring freezing tolerance : survival and regrowth assays / Daniel Z. Skinner and Kimberly Garland-Campbell
Measuring freezing tolerance : electrolyte leakage and chlorophyll fluorescence assays / Anja Thalhammer, Dirk K. Hincha, and Ellen Zuther
Conducting field trials for frost tolerance breeding in cereals / Luigi Cattivelli
A whole-plant screening test to identify genotypes with superior freezing tolerance / Annick Bertrand, Yves Castonguay, and Josée Bourassa
Mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with plant freezing tolerance and cold acclimation / Evelyne Téoulé and Carine Géry
Common garden experiments to characterize cold acclimation responses in plants from different climatic regions / Andrey V. Malyshev, Hugh A.L. Henry, and Juergen Kreyling
Identification of Arabidopsis mutants with altered freezing tolerance / Carlos Perea-Resa and Julio Salinas
Infrared thermal analysis of plant freezing processes / Gilbert Neuner and Edith Kuprian
Cryo-scanning electron microscopy to study the freezing behavior of plant tissues / Seizo Fujikawa and Keita Endoh
Three-dimensional reconstruction of frozen and thawed plant tissues from microscopic images / David P. Livingston III and Tan D. Tuong
Proteomic approaches to identify cold-regulated soluble proteins / Stefanie Döll, Rico Lippmann, and Hans-Peter Mock
Proteomic approaches to identify cold-regulated plasma membrane proteins / Daisuke Takahashi [and four others]
Profiling methods to identify cold-regulated primary metabolites using gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry / Frederik Dethloff [and eigt others]
A lipidomic approach to identify cold-induced changes in Arabidopsis membrane lipid composition / Hieu Sy Vu [and three others]
Quantification of superoxide and hydrogen peroxide in leaves / Ilona Juszczak and Margarete Baier
Estimating ice encasement tolerance of herbage plants / Bjarni E. Gudleifsson and Brynhildur Bjarnadottir
Characterization of ice binding proteins from sea ice algae / Maddalena Bayer-Giraldi, EonSeon Jin, and Peter W. Wilson
Isolation and characterization of ice-binding proteins from higher plants / Adam J. Middleton [and five others].