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Cold stress is one of the prevalent environmental stresses affecting crop productivity, particularly in temperate regions. Numerous plant types of tropical or subtropical origin are injured or killed by non-freezing low temperature, and display a range of symptoms of chilling injury such as chlorosis, necrosis, or growth retardation. In contrast, chilling tolerant species thrive well at such temperatures. To thrive under cold stress conditions, plants have evolved complex mechanisms to identify peripheral signals that allow them to counter varying environmental conditions. These mechanisms include stress perception, signal transduction, transcriptional activation of stress-responsive target genes, and synthesis of stress-related proteins and other molecules, which help plants to strive through adverse environmental conditions. Conventional breeding methods have met with limited success in improving the cold tolerance of important crop plants through inter-specific or inter-generic hybridization. A better understanding of physiological, biochemical and molecular responses and tolerance mechanisms, and discovery of novel stress-responsive pathways and genes may contribute to efficient engineering strategies that enhance cold stress tolerance. It is therefore imperative to accelerate the efforts to unravel the biochemical, physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying cold stress tolerance in plants. Through this new book, we intend to integrate the contributions from plant scientists targeting cold stress tolerance mechanisms using physiological, biochemical, molecular, structural and systems biology approaches. It is hoped that this collection will serve as a reference source for those who are interested in or are actively engaged in cold stress research.

Plants --- Cold-tolerant plants. --- Frost resistance. --- Effect of temperature on. --- Plants, Effect of temperature on --- Temperature --- Cold resistance of plants --- Frost hardiness of plants --- Frost resistance of plants --- Winter hardiness of plants --- Vegetation and climate --- Effect of atmospheric temperature on --- Physiological effect --- Effect of cold on --- Cold resistance --- Frost hardiness --- Winter hardiness --- Hardiness --- Plant physiology. --- Plant breeding. --- Agriculture. --- Cytology. --- Plant Physiology. --- Plant Breeding/Biotechnology. --- Oxidative Stress. --- Cell biology --- Cellular biology --- Biology --- Cells --- Cytologists --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Crops --- Agriculture --- Breeding --- Botany --- Physiology --- Oxidative stress. --- Oxidation-reduction reaction --- Stress (Physiology)

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631.52 --- Improvement of plant strains. Applied genetics. Selection etc. --- Crops --- Plant breeding. --- Plants --- Plant and Crop Sciences. Plant Breeding and Genetics --- Ecology. --- Effect of stress on. --- Hardiness. --- Resistance Breeding --- Resistance Breeding. --- 631.52 Improvement of plant strains. Applied genetics. Selection etc. --- Plant breeding --- Hardiness of plants --- Plant physiology --- Agriculture --- Breeding --- Stress (Physiology) --- Crop ecology --- Agricultural ecology --- Ecology --- Effect of stress on --- Hardiness --- Improvement of plant strains. Applied genetics. Selection etc