A COMPARISON OF COLD HARDINESS AND ICE ENCASEMENT TOLERANCE OF TIMOTHY GRASS AND WINTER WHEAT

1983 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. ANDREWS ◽  
B. E. GUDLEIFSSON

In the falls of 1979 and 1980 Salvo timothy grass (Phleum pratense L.) showed cold hardiness similar to Norstar winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) but significantly greater hardiness than Fredrick winter wheat. Ice tolerance of Salvo, with LI50 values of 29 and 45 days in the 2 yr, was more than twice that of the wheats. In controlled environments, seedlings of three timothy cultivars showed relatively low cold hardiness, but about threefold greater ice tolerance than the wheats. An Icelandic timothy cultivar, Korpa, showed greater ice tolerance than the Norwegian Engmo, and the Canadian cultivar Salvo. Fredrick wheat, and Korpa timothy cold hardened at a similar rate for 4 wk, but Korpa continued to harden to − 18 °C up to 6 wk of low temperature growth. Korpa rapidly attained a high tolerance to ice encasement in 2 wk of low temperature growth while Fredrick attained relatively low ice tolerance reaching a maximum at 3 wk of growth. There is little association between cold and ice tolerance in timothy, and there is a major difference in the ice tolerances of timothy and winter wheat. This high ice tolerance is likely to be a major cause of the superior survival of timothy in conditions of high winter stress. Key. words: Triticum, Phleum, acclimation, resistance, low temperature, frost

1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 2539-2546 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Andrews ◽  
M. K. Pomeroy ◽  
I. A. de la Roche

Seedlings of winter wheat (Triticum aestivwn cv. Rideau and Cappelle Desprez) grown on moist filter paper in petri plates in dark at low temperature increased in cold hardiness, as measured by changes in the LD50 temperatures. Rideau attained an LD50 temperature of −12 °C after 5 weeks, Cappelle Desprez, −6 °C. Exposure to light delayed the maximum hardiness by 2 weeks and increased it by 6 °C in both cultivars. Exposure to diurnal freezing temperature increased hardiness of both cultivars in the dark, and in light when excessive dehydration was prevented.Greater cold hardiness of plants of both cultivars was attained in soil in light at low temperature as compared with those in petri plates. Exposure of plants to diurnal freezing temperature maintained a higher level of hardiness after the maximum at 7 weeks than continuous low temperature without freezing. Diurnal freezing during active low temperature growth in petri plates or in soil increased hardiness of Rideau seedlings to an apparent maximum of −18 °C.


1990 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. RICHARD HETHERINGTON ◽  
BRYAN D. McKERSIE ◽  
LISA C. KEELER

Two winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars, Fredrick and Norstar, which differ in their winterhardiness potential, were compared with regard to the effects of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) application, during acclimation, on the expression of four traits associated with winterhardiness — freezing, ice-encasement, and low temperature flooding tolerances and crown moisture content. Modified Hoagland’s nutrient solutions containing five levels of each nutrient were applied to the seedlings during a 5-wk acclimation period at 2 °C, and subsequently the crowns were tested for their ability to survive varying intensities of the stress treatments. Increasing the level of applied N from 0, caused a reduction in the level of all stress tolerances. Increased P did not significantly alter the expression of freezing tolerance, but tended to increase tolerance of the anaerobic stresses, icing and low temperature flooding, to an optimum. Increased K had minimal effects on stress tolerance at the levels tested. Increased levels of each nutrient increased crown moisture content. The cultivar Norstar was consistently more tolerant of freezing and icing stress than Fredrick and this relative ranking was not influenced by mineral nutrition. However, the relative ranking for low temperature flooding tolerance varied depending on the nutrients provided to the seedlings. The results suggest that environmental and growth regulatory factors which influence the uptake of mineral nutrients would be expected to influence crown moisture content, and the expression of stress tolerance.Key words: Freezing, ice-encasement, flooding


1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 1093-1097 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. S. Redshaw ◽  
Saul Zalik

Noticeable changes in lipids were observed during growth of Sangaste fall rye, Prolific spring rye, Kharkov winter wheat, and Red Bobs spring wheat, at vernalizing temperature, over a period of 6 weeks. There was, however, little difference between the trends exhibited by the four varieties, apart from the fact that the rye varieties apparently accumulated more linolenic acid than the wheat varieties whereas the reverse was true for linoleic acid. These results suggested that the lipids under study did not play a direct role in the vernalization response, and the changes observed were a result of low-temperature growth.


1997 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Andrews ◽  
M. K. Pomeroy ◽  
W. L. Seaman ◽  
G. Butler ◽  
P. C. Bonn ◽  
...  

Reduction of populations of fall planted crops in the course of winter can result in substantial losses in economic yield. Variations in planting date of soft white winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in eastern Ontario are known to influence both survival and grain yield. This study was conducted to determine relationships between fall-accumulated growing degree days (GDD), cold hardiness, ice tolerance and a number of plant characteristics with survival recorded the next spring. Locations were at Ottawa (45°23′N) and Douglas (45°33′N) with four planting dates, 27 August, 10 September, 24 September and 8 October in 4 yr, 1983–1986. Delayed planting was associated with reduced survival at Ottawa in 1987 and in all years at Douglas. Consequently, survival at Ottawa showed little association with cold hardiness and ice tolerance, but there were significant correlations at Douglas. Measurements in 3 yr showed that late planted wheats were single tillered, up to 10 times lower fresh weight than the 3–5 tillered August-planted wheat, and their cold hardiness and ice tolerance were decreased. Moisture content of the crown tissue (CrW) increased with delayed planting despite the growth of the plants in acclimating conditions. Highest CrW developed in late-planted wheat at Douglas and showed a high negative correlation with survival. Cold hardiness and ice tolerance correlated with survival at Douglas and there were significant relationships between the stress tolerances. However, no consistent associations across location-years could be defined to explain winter survival in terms of fall-measured stress tolerances and plant parameters. Key words: Cold acclimation, cold hardiness, crown moisture, winter injury, ice encasement, delayed planting


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1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 1935-1940 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Andrews ◽  
Y. C. Paliwal

Cold hardness and ice encasement tolerance of 'Fredrick' and 'Norstar' winter wheats as affected by infection with barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) were determined during inoculation, disease development periods, and low-temperature growth. Plants were either prehardened to cold, or warm grown before infection; two disease development periods (DDP) were utilized. A long DDP induced greater pathogenesis and greater hardiness reduction than a short DDP. The effect of virus infection on the final level of hardiness of prehardened plants was generally greater than on that of nonprehardened plants. Viral infection reduced hardiness up to 3.5 °C in 'Fredrick' wheat, but reductions of 6–10 °C below hardiness potential were recorded after certain environmental regimes allowing disease development. Ice tolerance was reduced by BYDV infection in early low-temperature growth but was increased by infection after 4 months at low temperature. This increase in survival was associated with higher dry matter content in infected than in noninfected plants.


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