Effect of Cold Acclimation on Intracellular Ice Formation in Isolated Protoplasts
- 1 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 72 (4), 978-988
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.72.4.978
Abstract
When cooled at rapid rates to temperatures between -10 and -30.degree. C, the incidence of intracellular ice formation was less in protoplasts enzymically isolated from cold acclimated leaves of rye (Secale cereale L. cv. Puma) than that observed in protoplasts isolated from nonacclimated leaves. The extent of supercooling of the intracellular solution at any given temperature increased in both nonacclimated and acclimated protoplasts as the rate of cooling increased. There was no unique relationship between the extent of supercooling and the incidence of intracellular ice formation in either nonacclimated or acclimated protoplasts. In both nonacclimated and acclimated protoplasts, the extent of intracellular supercooling was similar under conditions that resulted in the greatest difference in the incidence of intracellular ice formation-cooling to -15 or -20.degree. C at rates of 10 or 16.degree. C/min. Further, the hydraulic conductivity determined during freeze-induced dehydration at -5.degree. C was similar for both nonacclimated and acclimated protoplasts. A major distinction between nonacclimated and acclimated protoplasts was the temperature at which nucleation occurred. In nonacclimated protoplasts, nucleation occurred over a relatively narrow temperature range with a median nucleation temperature of -15.degree. C, whereas in acclimated protoplasts, nucleation occurred over a broader temperature range with a median nucleation temperature of -42.degree. C. The decreased incidence of intracellular ice formation in acclimated protoplasts is probably attributable to an increase in the stability of the plasma membrane which precludes nucleation of the supercooled intracellular solution and is not attributable to an increase in hydraulic conductivity of the plasma membrane which purportedly precludes supercooling of the intracellular solution.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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