• Plant physiology · Dec 1978

    Freezing of water in red-osier dogwood stems in relation to cold hardiness.

    • L C Harrison, C J Weiser, and M J Burke.
    • Laboratory of Plant Hardiness, Department of Horticulture, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101.
    • Plant Physiol. 1978 Dec 1; 62 (6): 899-901.

    AbstractStudies of stem water in red-osier dogwood (Cornus stolonifera Michx.) using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy indicated that most freezing occurs at temperatures above -30 C in cold-hardy and tender stems. Hardy and tender stems had about the same amount of unfrozen water at -40 C (0.28 gram of water per gram dry weight). When hardy stems were slowly cooled below -20 C, the temperature below which little additional freezing occurs, they survived direct immersion in liquid N(2) (-196 C). Fully hardy samples not slowly precooled to at least -15 C did not survive direct immersion in liquid N(2). The results support the hypothesis that cooling rate is an unimportant factor in tissue survival at and below temperatures where there is little freezable water.

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