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Cover Caption: Farinose Flavone in Frost Protection
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of integrative plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.734
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1744-7909
pISSN - 1672-9072
DOI - 10.1111/jipb.12165
Subject(s) - frost (temperature) , cultivar , trichome , botany , cover (algebra) , ice nucleus , horticulture , biology , chemistry , geography , nucleation , meteorology , mechanical engineering , engineering , organic chemistry
During cold seasons, fairy primroses secrete various amounts of farinose flavone through specialized trichomes. In this issue, Isshiki et al. (pp. 181–188) query the role of flavone in frost protection, and observed that the ice nucleation temperatures closely correlated with amounts of flavone produced by selected cultivars, and exogenous application of flavone efficiently protected leaves and buds from freezing.