Extracellular freezing in frost hardy plants and its structural and physical factors

  • Schott, Rena Theresia
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Publication date
May 2021
Publisher
Universität Tübingen

Abstract

In this thesis, the structural adaptations of plants were investigated by studying freezing in different taxa (Betula nana, Betula albosinensis, Castanea sativa, Stachys byzantina and Equisetum hyemale). A physical model exploring the interrelationship between tissue structure and extracellular freezing is devised based on E. hyemale. Younger and older stems of the shrub B. nana and the trees B. albosinensis and C. sativa, which differ in habitat demands and frost hardiness, were analyzed and evaluated with regard to their ice nucleation temperature and the distribution of tissue, air and water/ice within the cortex of the bark. The median ice nucleation temperature of younger and older B. nana stems became similar from summer to winter an...

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