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Cold Stress in Plants: from molecular to systems level*
Shabir Hussain Wani
Dept. of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, USA
Venura Herath
Dept. of Agric. Biology,
Faculty of Agriculture,
University of Peradeniya,
Sri Lanka 20400
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Cold induced injuries in Plants
Dr.Reza Mali Amiri
Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran
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Morphological, Physiological, and biochemical adaptation to cold stress*
Kosala Ranathunge
Research Fellow
School of Plant Biology
The University of Western Australia (M084)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
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Sensing cold stress
Zhi-Yong Li
The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, Chinese National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan) HUST Part, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
Youzhi Ma
Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
Jörg Kudla
Institut für Biologie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Cold stress response signaling networks in plants
Michael Thomashow
MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
Michigan State University
Plant Biology Laboratories
612 Wilson Road, Room 310
East Lansing, MI 48824
Jorge Dubcovsky
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616
Moju Cao
Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, China
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Hormonal regulation of cold stress response
Julio Salinas
Departamento de Biología Medioambiental, Centro Investigaciones Biológicas, 28040 Madrid, Spain
M. Mar Castellano
Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas UPM/INIA, Campus de Montegancedo, 28223 Madrid, Spain
Joseph R. Ecker
Genomic Analysis Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
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Redox regulation of cold stress response*
Venura Herath
Dept. of Agric. Biology,
Faculty of Agriculture,
University of Peradeniya,
Sri Lanka 20400
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Role of CBF transcription factors in plant cold acclimation
Eric J. Stockinger
Department of Horticulture and Crop Science
The Ohio State University/OARDC
Wooster, OH 44691
330/263-3876 Simen R Sandve
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, ÅS, Norway
Colleen J. Doherty
Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry
Campus Box 7622
128 Polk Hall
Raleigh, NC 27695
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CBF-independent transcriptional regulation in cold stress response
Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki
About the Author: Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani is senior assistant professor at Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Khudwani -192101, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, J&K, India . He received his B.Sc. in agriculture from BhimRao Agricultural University Agra, India, and M.Sc. in genetics and plant breeding from Central Agricultural University, Manipur, India, and Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics on "transgenic rice for abiotic stress tolerance" from the Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, India. After obtaining his Ph.D. he worked as research associate in the Biotechnology Laboratory, Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture (ICAR), Srinagar, India. He then joined the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Farm Science Centre) as program coordinator at Senapati, Manipur, India. He teaches courses related to plant breeding, seed science and technology, and stress breeding and has published more than 100 papers/chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. He served as guest editor and reviews editor for journal Frontier in Plant Science (2015-2018). He has also edited several books on current topics in crop improvement for abiotic stress tolerance published by Springer Nature and CRC Press USA. His Ph.D. research won first prize in the North Zone Competition, at national level, in India. He was awarded a Young Scientist Award from the Society for Promotion of Plant Sciences, Jaipur, India, in 2009. He is a fellow of the Society for Plant Research, India. Recently, he received Young Scientist Award (Agriculture) 2015 from Society for Plant Research, Meerut, India. He also served as visiting Scientist at Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA under the UGC Raman Post Doctoral Fellowship programme. He has attended several international and national conferences, presenting his research.
Dr. Venura Herath is a Senior Lecturer at Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Agriculture from University of Peradeniya. His doctoral studies were carried out at University of Maine, USA on "Transcriptional regulatory networks involved in plant responses to low temperature". After completion of PhD, he served as a senior lecturer at Department of Agricultural Biology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and he is currently serving as the Head of the Department. Dr. Herath teaches courses on functional and stress genomics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His findings on abiotic stress response gene networks are published in both national and international journals. Currently, he is working on development of future ready rice by modulating key transcriptional factors using transgenic and genome editing technologies. He won the Norris Charles Clements Graduate Student Award in 2011 and the Presidential Awards for Research Publications in 2012.
