Environmental and Experimental Botany
Editors-in-Chief: Jean-Claude Kader and Kari Taulavuori

 

Virtual special issue on “Temperature Responses in Plants”
Compiled by: Jean-Claude Kader and Kari Taulavuori

 

Temperature changes during the succession of seasons or during days have a major impact on plant biology. Understanding the tolerance of plants to cold or heat stresses will thus contribute to the selection of adapted plants for the environment or agriculture.

The Journal Environmental and Experimental Botany (EEB) aims to develop knowledge about the mechanisms of the adaptation of plants to environmental factors, including temperature.

In recent years EEB has published numerous papers devoted to the study of the  responses of plants to low and high temperatures with the objective of providing significant advances in this domain. 

In this virtual special issue, twenty papers are presented related to this field of research.  Eleven papers are devoted to the responses and adaptation of plants to low temperatures while nine articles deal with thermo-tolerance and responses of plants to high temperatures.

We hope this virtual special issue will encourage discussion among experts in this field and will  attract novel and exciting papers to future issues of The Journal Environmental and Experimental Botany (EEB).

Other EEB virtual special issues:

Salt Tolerance of Plants

Light Responses in Plants

EEB recently published special issues:

External linkResponses, Acclimations and Adaptations of Northern Plants to Global Change - Volume 72, Issue 3, Pages 349-464 (October 2011)

External linkMetal(loid) tolerance in plants and lichens - Volume 72, Issue 1, Pages 1-106 (August 2011)

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Recently published papers in EEB related to the field of Temperature Responses in Plants

Responses to low temperatures

External link  How plants sense temperature 
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 2010, Pages 225-232
Eric Ruelland, Alain Zachowski

External link  Low temperature stress at different flower developmental stages affects pollen development, pollination, and pod set in soybean  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 69, Issue 1, September 2010, Pages 56-62
Shizen Ohnishi, Tomoaki Miyoshi, Shigehisa Shirai

External link  Cold stress effects on reproductive development in grain crops: An overview  Review Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 67, Issue 3, January 2010, Pages 429-443
Prince Thakur, Sanjeev Kumar, Jahid A. Malik, Jens D. Berger, Harsh Nayyar

External link  Alterations in chlorophyll a fluorescence, pigment concentrations and lipid peroxidation to chilling temperature in coffee seedlings  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 67, Issue 1, November 2009, Pages 71-76
Jurandi Gonçalves de Oliveira, Pedro Luís da Costa Aguiar Alves, Angela Pierre Vitória

External link  Quantitative expression analysis of selected low temperature-induced genes in autumn-seeded wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) reflects changes in soil temperature  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 66, Issue 1, April 2009, Pages 46-53
Seedhabadee Ganeshan, Tyrel Denesik, D. Brian Fowler, Ravindra N. Chibbar

External link  Over-expression of a cold-induced plasma membrane protein gene (MpRCI) from plantain enhances low temperature-resistance in transgenic tobacco  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 65, Issues 2-3, March 2009, Pages 395-402
Dong-Ru Feng, Bing Liu, Wen-Yan Li, Yan-Ming He, Kang-Biao Qi, Hong-Bin Wang, Jin-Fa Wang

External link  Seasonal changes in cold tolerance, water relations and accumulation of cations and compatible solutes in Atriplex halimus L.  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 64, Issue 3, December 2008, Pages 217-224
David J. Walker, Pascual Romero, Aránzazu de Hoyos, Enrique Correal

External link  Cold acclimation of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) at its northernmost distribution range  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 63, Issues 1-3, May 2008, Pages 59-70
Tapani Repo, Kirsi Mononen, Leila Alvila, Tuula T. Pakkanen, Heikki Hänninen

External link  Grafting tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) onto the rootstock of a high-altitude accession of Solanum habrochaites improves suboptimal-temperature tolerance  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 63, Issues 1-3, May 2008, Pages 359-367
Jan Henk Venema, Boukelien E. Dijk, Jozé M. Bax, Philip R. van Hasselt, J. Theo M. Elzenga

External link  The importance of hardening and winter temperature for growth in mountain birch populations  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 62, Issue 3, April 2008, Pages 254-266
Oddvar Skre, Kari Taulavuori, Erja Taulavuori, Jarle Nilsen, Bernt Igeland, Kari Laine

External link  Effects of growth stage and hardening conditions on the association between frost resistance and the expression of the cold-induced protein COR14b in barley  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 62, Issue 2, March 2008, Pages 93-100
C. Crosatti, D. Pagani, L. Cattivelli, A.M. Stanca, F. Rizza


Responses to high temperatures

External link  Effect of high night temperatures on cotton respiration, ATP levels and carbohydrate content  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 68, Issue 3, May 2010, Pages 258-263
D.A. Loka, D.M. Oosterhuis

External link  Interactions between temperature, drought and stomatal opening in legumes  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 68, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 37-43
Christina E. Reynolds-Henne, Anita Langenegger, Jan Mani, Nicole Schenk, Anita Zumsteg, Urs Feller

External link  The response of broccoli plants to high temperature and possible role of root aquaporins  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 68, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 83-90
María Iglesias-Acosta, M. Carmen Martínez-Ballesta, José Antonio Teruel, Micaela Carvajal

External link  Spatial variation in temperature thresholds during seed germination of remnant Festuca hallii populations across the Canadian prairie  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 67, Issue 3, January 2010, Pages 479-486
Jie Qiu, Yuguang Bai, Yong-Bi Fu, John F. Wilmshurst

External link  Comparison of thermotolerance of sun-exposed peel and shaded peel of ‘Fuji’ apple  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 66, Issue 1, April 2009, Pages 110-116
Li-Song Chen, Pengmin Li, Lailiang Cheng

External link  Thermoimaging as a tool for studying light-induced heating of leaves: Correlation of heat dissipation with the efficiency of photosystem II photochemistry and non-photochemical quenching  Original Research Article Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 64, Issue 1, September 2008, Pages 90-96 Radek Kaňa, Imre Vass

External link  VuNIP1 (NOD26-like) and VuHSP17.7 gene expression are regulated in response to heat stress in cowpea nodule  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 63, Issues 1-3, May 2008, Pages 256-265
Jean Luiz Simoes-Araujo, Márcio Alves-Ferreira, Norma Gouvêa Rumjanek, Márcia Margis-Pinheiro

External link  Climatic warming changes plant photosynthesis and its temperature dependence in a temperate steppe of northern China  Original Research Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 63, Issues 1-3, May 2008, Pages 91-101
Shuli Niu, Zhixiong Li, Jianyang Xia, Yi Han, Mingyu Wu, Shiqiang Wan

External link  Heat tolerance in plants: An overview  Review Article
Environmental and Experimental Botany, Volume 61, Issue 3, December 2007, Pages 199-223
A. Wahid, S. Gelani, M. Ashraf, M.R. Foolad

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