Freezing tolerance and avoidance in high-elevation Hawaiian plants

Author:

Lipp, C.C., Goldstein, G., Meinzer, F.C., Niemczura, W.

Title:

Freezing tolerance and avoidance in high-elevation Hawaiian plants

Periodical:

Plant, Cell, and Environment

Year:

1994

Volume:

17

Pages:

1035-1044

Subject:

Silverswords Mamane Sophora chrysophylla Supercooling Tropical alpine habitat Haleakala

Summary:

Plants that grow at high elevations in Hawaii are commonly subjected to nocturnal freezing temperatures that especially occur during the winter months. However, a plant's ability to tolerate or avoid tissue-freezing had not been investigated. As a result, this study was carried out between the 2740 and the 3050 elevation of the Haleakala National Park, on the island of Maui, in an effort to determine freezing resistance mechanisms in five endemic Hawaiian species that grow where subzero, (degrees Celsius), air temperatures frequently occur.

Label:

Ecology

Date:

1994

Collection:

Periodicals