Plant and Microbe Adaptations to Cold in a Changing World

1. Global Change in Winter Climate and Agricultural Sustainability
Timothy Murray, Denis Gaudet

2. Soil Freezing Dynamics in a Changing Climate: Implications for Agriculture
Hugh A. L. Henry

3. Winter Climate Change and Ecological Implications in Temperate Systems
Juergen Kreyling

4. 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

5. 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, Yosuke Yanai, Takeshi Suzuki, Masaki Shirahata, Tsutomu Kajiyama, Kazuya Araki, Kenji Maezuka

6. Climatic and Physiological Background of Ice Encasement Damage of Herbage Plants
Bjarni E. Gudleifsson

7. Hormones, NO, Antioxidants and Metabolites as Key Players in Plant Cold Acclimation
Gábor Galiba, Radomira Vanková, Irma Tari, Zsófia Bánfalvi, Péter Poór, Petre Dobrev, Ákos Boldizsár, Attila Vágújfalvi, Gábor Kocsy

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

Anja Thalhammer, Dirk K. Hincha

9. 3D Reconstruction of Frozen Plant Tissue: A Unique Histological Analysis to Image Postfreeze Responses
David P. Livingston III, Tan Tuong

10. Post-transcriptional and Post-translational Modifications Controlling Cold Response
Elisabetta Mazzucotelli, Cristina Crosatti, Lorenzo Giusti, Davide Guerra, Luigi Cattivelli

11. Cold Shock Domain Proteins in Arabidopsis
: Functions in Stress Tolerance and Development
Ryozo Imai, Myung Hee Kim, Kentaro Sasaki, Shunya Sato, Yutaka Sonoda

12. Regulation of RNA Metabolism in Plant Adaptation to Cold
Hunseung Kang, Su Jung Park

13. Protein Phosphorylation Network in Abscisic Acid Signaling
Taishi Umezawa, Naoyuki Sugiyama, Jeffrey C. Anderson, Fuminori Takahashi, Yasushi Ishihama, Scott C. Peck, Kazuo Shinozaki

14. 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

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

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

16. ICE1, a Transcription Factor Involved in Cold Signaling and Tolerance
Kenji Miura

17. Breeding for Improved Winter Survival in Forage Grasses
Odd Arne Rognli

18. Molecular Changes in Recurrently Selected Populations of Forage Legumes
Annick Bertrand, Yves Castonguay

19. Abiotic Stress Signal Network with Expression QTLs for Cold-Responsive Genes in Common Wheat
Julio C. M. Iehisa, Yoichi Motomura, Fuminori Kobayashi, Shigeo Takumi

20. Molecular Analysis of Fructan Metabolism Associated with Freezing Tolerance and Snow Mold Resistance of Winter Wheat
Midori Yoshida, Akira Kawakami

21. Do Growth Kinetics of Snow-mold Fungi Explain Exponential CO2 Fluxes Through the Snow?
Steven K. Schmidt, S. R. Frankel, R. L. Wagner, Ryan C. Lynch

22. Change in Snow Mold Flora in Eastern Hokkaido and its Impact on Agriculture
Naoyuki Matsumoto, Tamotsu Hoshino

23. Phytopathogenic Fungi and Fungal-Like Microbes in Svalbard
Motoaki Tojo, Shota Masumoto, Tamotsu Hoshino

24. Ecological Strategies of Snow Molds to Tolerate Freezing Stress
Tamotsu Hoshino, Nan Xiao, Yuka Yajima, Kenichi Kida, Katsuyuki Tokura, Ryo Murakami, Motoaki Tojo, Naoyuki Matsumoto

25. Snow Mold Fungi in Russia
Oleg B. Tkachenko

26. Snow Moulds in a Changing Environment—A Scandinavian Perspective
Anne Marte Tronsmo

27. Mechanisms of Snow Mold Resistance in Wheat
Denis Gaudet, André Laroche

28. Activating Disease Resistance in Turfgrasses Against Fungal Pathogens: Civitas and Harmonizer
Tom Hsiang, Paul H. Goodwin, Alejandra M. Cortes-Barco, Brady T. Nash, Jonathan Tung

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Plant Genetics & Genomics, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology