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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2002

Plants in a cold climate.

Maggie Smallwood, Dianna J Bowles

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Maggie SmallwoodCentre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, PO Box 373, University of York, York YO1 5YW, UK. mfs1@york.ac.uk
Dianna J Bowles

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants are able to survive prolonged exposure to sub-zero temperatures; this ability is enhanced by pre-exposure to low, but above-zero temperatures. This process, known as cold acclimation, is briefly reviewed from the perception of cold, through transduction of the low-temperature signal to functional analysis of cold-induced gene products. The stresses that freezing of apoplastic water imposes on plant cells is considered and what is understood about the mechanisms that plants use to combat those stresses discussed, with particular emphasis on the role of the extracellular matrix.

Indexed as

AcclimatizationCold ClimatePlant Physiological PhenomenaFreezingGene Expression Regulation, PlantPlant CellsPlants

Identifiers

PMID12171647
PMCPMC1692998

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