Adaptations of plant mitochondria during cold acclimation in Arabidopsis thaliana: towards an understanding of plant cold acclimation

霜冻损害是农业生产者的主要损失，一些作物物种在温带地区或温室中种植时，不必要地适应寒冷，从而导致产量下降。该项目的主要成果将极大地扩展我们对植物线粒体对环境冷胁迫的反应以及它们在帮助植物适应环境变化中的作用的认识。对冷驯化的理解可以使植物生产具有改变的冷驯化表型和更强的抗冻性。

Frost damage is a major cost to agricultural producers and some crop plant species needlessly adapt to cold, when they are grown in temperate regions or in glasshouses, which leads to decreased production. The principal outcome of this project will be to greatly extend our knowledge about plant mitochondrial responses to environmental cold stress and what role they have in helping plants adapt to environmental change. An understanding of cold acclimation may allow the production of plants with altered cold acclimation phenotypes and greater frost tolerance.