Book includes papers from keynote lecture and oral presentations of Plant and Microbe Adaptations to Cold (PMAC) 2012

Covers topics such as global warming in agricultural environment, plant adaptations to cold, microbial adaptations to cold, plant-microbe interaction under cold, and molecular breeding for winter hardiness

Experts in the field report cutting edge research and thoughtful strategies for sustainability

Includes supplementary material: [...]

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.