It might seem counterintuitive, but turning on your sprinklers during a light frost can actually protect your plants from freezing. Here's how it works.

Freezing, dehydration, and supercooling cause microtubules in mesophyll cells of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L. cv Bloomsdale) to depolymerize (ME Bartolo, JV Carter, Plant Physiol [1991] 97: 175-181).

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - After a stretch of warm Spring weather, Winter made a quick comeback. For those who’ve already planted or had their annuals bloom the question now is, how do I help my plants ...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), working in close collaboration with KeyGene, have developed a method that enables plant cells to regenerate into complete plants without the need ...

Researchers in Japan have demonstrated preserving frozen animal cells without a cryoprotectant agent, relying instead on ultrarapid cooling. A team of Japanese researchers has -- for the first time -- ...

A team led by plant biologists at the Universities of Freiburg and Göttingen in Germany has shown for the first time that mosses have a mechanism to protect them against cold that was previously known ...

Suspension cultures of carrot (Daucus carota, line C1), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum, line TX1), and Nicotiana plumbaginifolia (line NP) were frozen under controlled conditions with trehalose as the ...

Frost and freezing temperatures could be the next weather challenge for Marin gardens. The harbinger of frost conditions is calm, clear and cold nights. When low temperatures are combined with wind, ...