Plant and Microbe Adaptations to Cold in a Changing World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Global Change in Winter Climate and Agricultural Sustainability

   • Timothy Murray, Denis Gaudet

   Pages 1-15

3. Soil Freezing Dynamics in a Changing Climate: Implications for Agriculture

   • Hugh A. L. Henry

   Pages 17-27

4. Winter Climate Change and Ecological Implications in Temperate Systems

   • Juergen Kreyling

   Pages 29-40

5. Possible Change of Water and Nitrate Cycles Associated with the Frost-Depth Decrease Under Climate Change

   • Yukiyoshi Iwata, Tomoyoshi Hirota, Masaki Hayashi, Junichi Arima, Shinji Suzuki, Manabu Nemoto

   Pages 41-50

6. Soil Frost Control: Its Application to Volunteer Potato Management in a Cold Region

   • Tomoyoshi Hirota, Manabu Nemoto, Satoshi Inoue, Tomotsugu Yazaki, Kazuei Usuki, Masaki Hayashi et al.

   Pages 51-61

7. Climatic and Physiological Background of Ice Encasement Damage of Herbage Plants

   • Bjarni E. Gudleifsson

   Pages 63-72

8. Hormones, NO, Antioxidants and Metabolites as Key Players in Plant Cold Acclimation

   • Gábor Galiba, Radomira Vanková, Irma Tari, Zsófia Bánfalvi, Péter Poór, Petre Dobrev et al.

   Pages 73-87

9. The Function and Evolution of Closely Related COR/LEA (Cold-Regulated/Late Embryogenesis Abundant) Proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana

   • Anja Thalhammer, Dirk K. Hincha

   Pages 89-105

10. 3D Reconstruction of Frozen Plant Tissue: A Unique Histological Analysis to Image Postfreeze Responses

    • David P. Livingston III, Tan Tuong

    Pages 107-117

11. Post-transcriptional and Post-translational Modifications Controlling Cold Response

    • Elisabetta Mazzucotelli, Cristina Crosatti, Lorenzo Giusti, Davide Guerra, Luigi Cattivelli

    Pages 119-129

12. Cold Shock Domain Proteins in Arabidopsis : Functions in Stress Tolerance and Development

    • Ryozo Imai, Myung Hee Kim, Kentaro Sasaki, Shunya Sato, Yutaka Sonoda

    Pages 131-142

13. Regulation of RNA Metabolism in Plant Adaptation to Cold

    • Hunseung Kang, Su Jung Park

    Pages 143-154

14. Protein Phosphorylation Network in Abscisic Acid Signaling

    • Taishi Umezawa, Naoyuki Sugiyama, Jeffrey C. Anderson, Fuminori Takahashi, Yasushi Ishihama, Scott C. Peck et al.

    Pages 155-164

15. Using Synchrotron FTIR and Confocal Cryomicroscopy to Explore Mechanisms of Cold Acclimation and Freezing Resistance Using a Single Cell Layer of Allium fistulosum L

    • Karen Tanino, Jun Liu, Shion Kobayashi, Yukio Kawamura, Ferenc Borondics, Matsuo Uemura

    Pages 165-177

16. Supercooling-Facilitating Hydrolyzable Tannins Isolated from Xylem Tissues of Cercidiphyllum japonicum

    • Donghui Wang, Chikako Kuwabara, Keita Endoh, Yukiharu Fukushi, Seizo Fujikawa, Keita Arakawa

    Pages 179-188

17. ICE1, a Transcription Factor Involved in Cold Signaling and Tolerance

    • Kenji Miura

    Pages 189-195

18. Breeding for Improved Winter Survival in Forage Grasses

    • Odd Arne Rognli

    Pages 197-208

19. Molecular Changes in Recurrently Selected Populations of Forage Legumes

    • Annick Bertrand, Yves Castonguay

    Pages 209-217

20. Abiotic Stress Signal Network with Expression QTLs for Cold-Responsive Genes in Common Wheat

    • Julio C. M. Iehisa, Yoichi Motomura, Fuminori Kobayashi, Shigeo Takumi

    Pages 219-229

​This book includes papers from keynote lecture and oral presentations of Plant and Microbe Adaptations to Cold (PMAC) 2012, an international conference on winter hardiness of crop and pathogenic microbes. The PMAC has been started in 1997 in Japan as an interdisciplinary forum for scientists and extension people working in the field in plant pathology, plant physiology, microbiology, and crop breeding to increase our knowledge and improve our understanding of overwintering of crops, forages and grasses and solve the problems associated with losses due to freezing and heavy snow cover. Successive meetings have been held in Iceland (2000), Canada (2003), Italy (2006), and Norway (2009). PMAC2012 will be a special meeting with a focus on global climate change, food security and agriculture sustainability and the whole program will be arranged to reflect this theme. The topics covered by this proceedings includes, global warming in agricultural environment, plant adaptations to cold, microbial adaptations to cold, plant-microbe interaction under cold, and molecular breeding for winter hardiness. The researches range from molecular biology to ecology and breeding. Experts in the field will report cutting edge research and thoughtful strategies for sustainability.​

• Climate Change
• Microbial Stress Adaptation
• Plant Stress Adaptation

• Crop Breeding Research Division, NARO Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, Sapporo, Japan

  Ryozo Imai, Midori Yoshida

• Silviculture & Forest Ecology Studies, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Agriculture, Sapporo, Japan

  Naoyuki Matsumoto

Dr. Ryozo Imai Crop Breeding Research Division Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, NARO Dr. Naoyuki Matsumoto Silviculture & Forest Ecology Studies Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University

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