Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- PART 1: THE FREEZING PROCESS -- 1 Ice Nucleation, Propagation and Deep Supercooling: the Lost Tribes of Freezing Studies -- 2 Low-temperature Damage to Wheat in Head - Matching Perceptions with Reality -- 3 Freezing Behaviours in Plant Tissues: Visualization using NMR Micro-imaging and Biochemical Regulatory Factors Involved -- 4 Factors Related to Change of Deep Supercooling Capability in Xylem Parenchyma Cells of Trees -- PART 2: MOLECULAR BASIS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF FREEZING TOLERANCE -- 5 Plant Cold-shock Domain Proteins: on the Tip of an Iceberg -- 6 Expressional and Functional Characterization of Arabidopsis Cold-shock Domain Proteins -- 7 Plasma Membrane and Plant Freezing Tolerance: Possible Involvement of Plasma Membrane Microdomains in Cold Acclimation -- 8 Global Expression of Cold-responsive Genes in Fruit Trees -- 9 Could Ethanolic Fermentation During Cold Shock Be a Novel Plant Cold Stress Coping Strategy? -- PART 3: LINKAGE BETWEEN DEVELOPMENTAL ARREST AND COLD HARDINESS -- 10 Bud Set - A Landmark of the Seasonal Growth Cycle in Poplar -- 11 An Epigenetic Memory from Time of Embryo Development Affects Climatic Adaptation in Norway Spruce -- 12 The Influence of Temperature on Dormancy Induction and Plant Survival in Woody Plants -- PART 4: GENETIC BASIS OF SUPERIOR COLD TOLERANCE -- 13 Winter Hardiness and the CBF Genes in the Triticeae -- 14 Regulation of Stress-responsive Signalling Pathways by Eudicot CBF/DREB1 Genes -- PART 5: IMPACT OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ON PLANTS -- 15 Evolution of Plant Cold Hardiness and its Manifestation along the Latitudinal Gradient in the Canadian Arctic -- 16 Ice Encasement Damage on Grass Crops and Alpine Plants in Iceland - Impact of Climate Change -- 17 Impact of Simulated Acid Snow Stress on Leaves of Cold-acclimated Winter Wheat.

18 Elevated Atmospheric CO[sub(2)] Concentrations Enhance Vulnerability to Frost Damage in a Warming World -- 19 The Occurrence of Winter-freeze Events in Fruit Crops Grown in the Okanagan Valley and the Potential Impact of Climate Change -- 20 Cold Hardiness in Antarctic Vascular Plants -- PART 6: FROM THE LABORATORY TO THE FIELD: BRIDGING THE GAP -- 21 Patterns of Freezing in Plants: the Influence of Species, Environment and Experiential Procedures -- 22 Going to Extremes: Low-temperature Tolerance and Acclimation in Temperate and Boreal Conifers -- 23 The Rapid Cold-hardening Response in Insects: Ecological Significance and Physiological Mechanisms -- PART 7: PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND SIGNALLING -- 24 Conifer Cold Hardiness, Climate Change and the Likely Effects of Warmer Temperatures on Photosynthesis -- 25 Chemical Genetics Identifies New Chilling Stress Determinants in Arabidopsis -- 26 Analysis of the Ascorbate Antioxidant Pathway in Overwintering Populations of Lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) of Contrasting Freezing Tolerance -- PART 8: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY -- 27 Identification of Proteins from Potato Leaves Submitted to Chilling Temperature -- 28 Genomics of Cold Hardiness in Forest Trees -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- The Colour Plate Section.