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Abstract
Exposure of six wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and one rye (Secale cereale L.) cultivar to 40% relative humidity for 24 hours induced the same degree of freezing tolerance in seedling epicotyls as did cold conditioning for 4 weeks at 2 degrees C.Frost hardiness varietal relationships were the same in desiccation-stressed and cold-hardened seedlings. Drought stress could, therefore, be used as a rapid and simple method for inducing frost hardiness in seedling shoots in replacement of cold conditioning.Entities:
Year: 1982 PMID: 16662170 PMCID: PMC426184 DOI: 10.1104/pp.69.1.256
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Plant Physiol ISSN: 0032-0889 Impact factor: 8.340