Plant and Microbe Adaptations to Cold in a Changing World

1. Global change in winter climate and agricultural sustainability. - 2. Soil freezing dynamics in a changing climate: implications for agriculture. - 3. Winter climate change and ecological implications in temperate systems. - 4. Possible change of water and nitrate cycles associated with the frost-depth decrease under climate change. - 5. Soil Frost Control: Its Application to Volunteer Potato Management in a Cold Region. - 6. Climatic and physiological background of ice encasement damage of herbage plants. - 7. NO, antioxidants and metabolites as key players in plant cold acclimation. - 8. The function and evolution of closely related COR/LEA (COld Regulated/Late Embryogenesis Abundant) proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana. - 9. 3D Reconstruction of Frozen Plant Tissue: a unique histological analysis to image post-freeze responses. - 10. Post-transcriptional and post-translational modifications controlling cold response. - 11. Cold shock domain proteins in Arabidopsis: functions in stress tolerance and development. - 12. Regulation of RNA metabolism in plant adaptation to cold. - 13. Protein Phosphorylation Network in Abscisic Acid Signaling. - 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. . - 15. Supercooling-Facilitating Hydrolyzable Tannins Isolated from Xylem Tissues of Cercidiphyllum japonicum. - 16. ICE1, a transcription factor involved in cold signaling and tolerance. - 17. Breeding for improved winter survival in forage grasses. - 18. Molecular changes in recurrently selected populations of forage legumes. - 19. Abiotic stress signal network with expression QTLs for cold-responsive genes in common wheat. - 20. Molecular analysis of fructan metabolism associated with freezing tolerance and snow mold resistance of winter wheat. - 21. Do growth kinetics of snow-mold fungi explain exponential CO2 fluxes through the snow? . - 22. Change in Snow Mold Florain Eastern Hokkaido and its Impact on Agriculture. - 23. Phytopathogenic fungi and fungal-like microbes in Svalbard. - 24. Ecological Strategies of Snow Molds to Tolerate Freezing Stress. - 25. Snow mold fungi in Russia. - 26. Snow moulds in a changing environment - a Scandinavian perspective. - 27. Mechanisms of snow mold resistance in wheat. - 28. Activating Disease Resistance in Turfgrasses Against Fungal Pathogens: Civitas and Harmonizer.