Plant adaptation to cold climates

In this short review, I will first summarize criteria by which environments can be considered “cold”, with plant stature (size, height above ground) playing a central role for the climate actually experienced. Plants adapted to such environments have to cope with both extremes and with gradual influ...

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Published inF1000 research Vol. 5; p. 2769
Main Author Körner, Christian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Faculty of 1000 Ltd 2016
F1000Research
F1000 Research Ltd
Subjects
Phenology
Physiological Ecology
Plant-Environment Interactions
Review
stress
development
freezing
biogeography
phenology
growth
climate
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Summary:In this short review, I will first summarize criteria by which environments can be considered “cold”, with plant stature (size, height above ground) playing a central role for the climate actually experienced. Plants adapted to such environments have to cope with both extremes and with gradual influences of low temperature. The first requires freezing resistance, which is tightly coupled to developmental state (phenology) and prehistory (acclimation). Gradual low temperature constraints affect the growth process (meristems) long before they affect photosynthetic carbon gain. Hence, plants growing in cold climates are commonly not carbon limited.
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Competing interests: The author declares that he has no competing interests.
ISSN:2046-1402
2046-1402
DOI:10.12688/f1000research.9107.1