Flowering plants initially diversified during the Mesozoic era at least 140 million years ago in
regions of the world where temperate seasonal environments were not encountered. Since …

Key message Cryopreservation provides valuable genes for further breeding of elite
cultivars, and cryotherapy improves the production of virus-free plants in Malus spp., thus …

Continuous discoveries in plant and crop physiology have resulted in an abundance of new
information since the publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop …

Currently, there is a varietal diversity decline in pear orchards of the Czech Republic. Thus,
the safe storage of their gene pool collections is becoming increasingly important. Therefore …

Cold stress is a major environmental factor that limits the distribution of plants and
determines the spectrum and amount of secondary metabolites with a protective function …

The ongoing global climate change has aroused interest in the spring phenology of woody
species in boreal and temperate regions that require cold temperatures to break bud …

Increasing interest in cryopreservation of dormant buds reveals the need for better
understanding of the role of dormancy in cryotolerance. Dormancy stage and low …

Chrysanthemum stunt viroid (CSVd) and chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid (CChMVd)
are the two viroids most frequently infecting chrysanthemum. This study attempted to …

Winter hardiness is one of the main traits affecting survival, productivity and cultivar choice
for important horticultural plants in a temperate climatic zone. Given the complexity of the …

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effective temperature for overcoming the
dormancy of 'Fuyu'persimmon tree buds. Stem samples were collected three times between …