Abstract
the response of woody plant tissues to freezing temperature has evolved into two distinct behavioursL an avoidance strategy, in which intracellular water supercools, and a freeze-tolerance strategy, where cells tolerate the loss of water to extracelular ice. Although both strategies involve extracellular ice formation, supercooling cells are thought to resist freee-induced dehydration. Dehydrin proteins, which accumulate during cold acclimation in numerous herbaceous and woody plants, have been speculated to provide, among other things, protection from desiccative etracellular ice formation. Here we use Cornus as a model sustem to provide the first phylogenetic characterization of xylem freezing behaviour and dehydrin-like proteins. ... supercooling and nonaccumulation of dehydrin-like proteins are ancestral within the genus. ....
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