Plants chilling sensitivity

Murata, N., Nishizawa, O.-I., Higashi, S., Hayashi, H., Tasaka, Y. and Nishida, I. (1992) Genetically engineered alteration in the chilling sensitivity of plants. Nature, 356, 710-713. 

Hugly, S., McCourt, P., Browse, J., Patterson, G.W. Somerville, C. (1990). A chilling sensitive mutant of Arabidopsis with altered steryl-ester metabolism. Plant Physiology 93, 1053-62. 

King, A.I., Joyce, D.C. Reid, M.S. (1988). Role of carbohydrates in diurnal chilling sensitivity of tomato seedlings. Plant Physiology 86, 764-8. 

Roughan, P.G. (1985). Phosphatidylglycerol and chilling sensitivity in plants. Plant Physiology 77, 740-6. 

Arrhenius plots have been used to identify processes that change markedly over the range of temperatures that injure chilling-sensitive plants,... 

Pytkowicz, R.M. 1979. Activity Coefficients in Electrolyte Solutions. CRC Press, Cleveland, OH. Raison, J.K., and Chapman, E.A. 1976. Membrane phase changes in chilling-sensitive Vigna radiata and their significance to growth. Aust. I. Plant Physiol. 3 291-299. 

Another topic is the protection of perishable fruits, vegetables, potted plants, and cut flowers. Many tropical fruits and vegetables are chill sensitive and cannot be transported or stored under low-temperature conditions. Other means for delaying deterioration are therefore needed. 

Chloroplasts are the first and the most severely affected organelles by chill [32]. The thylakoids swell and distort, starch granules disappear, and a peripheral reticulum appears. Chilling also leads to cytoplasmic acidification in chill-sensitive plants [38]. As the temperature drops below 0°C, the difference in concentration between intracellular (symplast) and extracellular fluids... 

Kawamura Y. Chilling induces a decrease in pyrophosphate-dependent H+-accumu-lation associated with a ApHvac-stat in mung bean, a chill-sensitive plant. Plant, Cell Environment 2008 31(3) 288-300. 

They suggested that demethylation of the pectin by pectinmethyl-esterase resulted in a more rigid cell wall structure, and that this deesterification may be a common characteristic of chilling-sensitive plants ( ). ... 

Chilling sensitive plants like tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum L. ) are damaged by sudden exposure to suboptimal temperature. However, a gradual change of growth conditions enables plants to adapt to less favourable circumstances and maintain growth. The ability to perform an adaptation differs between species and even between cultivars. 

Morris DA (1979) Effects of temperature on the velocity of exogenous auxin transport in intact chilling-sensitive and chilling-resistant plants. Planta 146 603-605 Morris DA, Kadir GO (1972) Pathway of auxin transport in the intact pea seedling Pisum sativum L.). Planta 107 171-182... 

Yoshida, S., Washio, K., Kenrick, J., and Orr, G. (1988) Thermotropic properties of lipids extracted from plasma membrane and tonoplast isolated from chilling-sensitive mung bean (Vigna radiata L.] Wilczek). Plant Cell Physiol. 29,1411-1416. 

Many important crops are injured or killed by exposure to low nonfreezing temperatures. The presence of only one centrally positioned cw-double bond in the fatty acids in polar lipids effectively decreases the phase transition temperature [1]. There has been sustained interest in the possible role of the saturation level of membrane lipids as a determinant factor of chilling sensitivity of higher plants. However, it has been difficult to establish correlations between the saturation level of total membrane lipids of different higher plant species and chilling sensitivity [2]. 

Silvius, J.R. Thermotropic phase transitions of pure lipids in model membranes and their modification by membrane proteins, in P.C. lost and O.H. Griffith (eds.), Lipid-Protein Interactions. Vol. 2, Wiley, New York, (1982), pp. 239-281. Somerville, C. Direct tests of the role of membrane lipid composition in low-temperature-induced photoinhibition and chilling sensitivity in plants and cyanobacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92 (1995), 6215-6218. 

Wu, J. and Browse, (1995) Elevated levels of high-melting-point phosphatidylglycerols do not induce chilling sensitivity in an Arabidopsis mutant. J. Plant Cell, 1, 17-27. 

Several observations of this kind have already been made in plants two examples are the accumulation of proline after drought stress (4[) and changes in the linoleic linolenic acid ratio as a consequence of altered chilling sensitivity ( ) ... 

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