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Fabio Fiorani and colleagues of Duke University report that ?The Alternative
Oxidase of Plant Mitochondria Is Involved in the Acclimation of Shoot Growth
at Low Temperature: A Study of Arabidopsis AOX1a Transgenic Plants.? Their
findings appear in the latest issue of Plant Physiology, December 2005.

By using the AOX1a gene, transforming Arabidopsis plants with it, and
monitoring the growth of the plants at 12°C, researchers found that plants
thrived and survived the low temperature. Among others, they found that AOX
activity plays a role in shoot acclimation to low temperature in Arabidopsis
at relatively early growth stages, but growth diminished as plants
approached flowering.

Subscribers to Plant Physiology can read the complete article at:
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