Jingjin Cheng¹ , Hao Li² , Haolong Zao² , Zhenhua Huang² , Meirong Hai¹ , Wei Fan¹

1 College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China
2 College of Resources and Environment, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China
Author    Correspondence author
Field Crop, 2022, Vol. 5, No. 1   doi: 10.5376/fc.2022.05.0001
Received: 15 Mar., 2022    Accepted: 24 Mar., 2022    Published: 02 Apr., 2022

This article was first published in Molecular Plant Breeding in Chinese, and here was authorized to translate and publish the paper in English under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Cheng J.J., Li H., Zao H.L., Huang Z.H., Hai M.R., and Fan W., 2022, Molecular regulation mechanism of plant response to cold stress, Field Crop, 5(1): 1-15 (doi: 10.5376/fc.2022.05.0001)

Cold stress is a major environmental factor that limits plant growth and development, and geographical distribution. Plants have evolved a series of physiological and molecular mechanisms to protect against low-temperature damage in the long-term adaptation to changing environmental temperatures. In recent years, the molecular mechanisms of how plants sense, transduce and regulate low temperature tolerance have made great breakthrough and progress in model plants such as rice and Arabidopsis. Centered on CBF-COR, this paper reviews the molecular mechanism of plant response to low temperature stress by integrating external signals such as low temperature, circadian rhythm, photoperiod, flowering and hormones, as well as internal controls such as transcription level, post translation level and epigenetic modification. The future research direction and focus on this field are discussed.

Cold stress; Signal regulation; Response mechanism