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Woody landscape plants residing in temperate zone experience adverse winter conditions during their annual cycle and, therefore, must develop sufficient cold hardiness in the fall of each year (cold acclimation) in order to prepare for over-wintering and surviving low mid-winter temperatures. Lack of adequate cold acclimation (CA), a genetically determined trait, often limits where many landscape plants can be grown successfully. Besides affecting their geographic distribution, low temperatures often cause winter-injury to many landscape plantings thereby causing substantial economic losses. To be able to expand the range of landscape plants that could be grown in areas with cold winters, one must first acquire a basic understanding of cold acclimation process, however, few attempts have been made to study the genetic, physiological or molecular mechanism(s) of CA in woody perennials.
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Arora, R. (2002). Cold Acclimation in Rhododendron. In: Li, P.H., Palva, E.T. (eds) Plant Cold Hardiness. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0711-6_7
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