Trees growing in boreal and temperate regions synchronize their growth with seasonal
climatic changes in adaptive responses that are essential for their survival. These trees …

In tree species native to temperate and boreal regions, the activity‐dormancy cycle is an
important adaptive trait both for survival and growth. We discuss recent research on …

Evergreen conifers are champions of winter survival, based on their remarkable ability to
acclimate to cold and develop cold hardiness. Counterintuitively, autumn cold acclimation is …

The integration of functional traits into vulnerability assessments is a promising approach to
quantitatively capture differences in species sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate …

For perennial plants, bud dormancy is a crucial step as its progression over winter
determines the quality of bud break, flowering, and fruiting. In the past decades, many …

Plants, as sessile organisms, adapt to different stressful conditions, such as drought, salinity,
extreme temperatures, and nutrient deficiency, via plastic developmental and growth …

Background How plants adapt their developmental patterns to regular seasonal changes is
an important question in biology. The annual growth cycle in perennial long-lived trees is yet …

Bud dormancy transition is a vital developmental process for perennial plant survival. The
process is precisely regulated by diverse endogenous genetic factors and environmental …

The light frequency of red (R) and blue (B) plays a crucial role within plant growth cycle.
Whereas, the relationship between the metabolic pathways involved in photosynthesis and …

Release of bud dormancy in perennial plants resembles vernalization in Arabidopsis
thaliana and cereals. In both cases, a certain period of chilling is required for accomplishing …