Cold Acclimation in Oats and Other Plants Dissecting Low Temperature Responses Using a Comparative Genomic Approach
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Cold acclimation protects plants from temperate regions of the world from the deleterious effects of low and freezing temperatures. This is through a series of transcriptional, regulatory and metabolic changes that enable continued growth and survival. The focus in this thesis is to increase our understanding of the cold acclimation process and there by open the door to development of cold hardy oat (Avena sativa) varieties for the Nordic climate conditions. We started by sequencing 9,792 oat ESTs from a cDNA library prepared from pooled total RNA extracted from cold induced oat plants. These sequences were assembled into a UniGene ser of 2,800 sequences, 398 displayed homology to genes previously reported to be involved in cold acclimation. The CBF factor family have a key regulatory role during cold acclimation and in our UniGene set we found four oat CBF
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