During the first part of the growing season climatic factors exert their strongest influence on radial enlargement of cells, whereas during the later part of the vegetation period, weather parameters mainly affect the cell wall thickening process (Rossi et al., 2006a,b).
Of all vegetation types, tropical rainforests grow in climatic conditions that are least limiting to plant growth.
Chinese Spring plus rye chromosome pairs 1, 6 and 7, 2n = 44), were germinated for 3 days at 25°C and further grown at climatic chambers with a photoperiod of 16 hours light (20°C /8 hours dark (20°C) cycle.
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum cv MicroTom) plants were grown in climatic chamber.
The recently proposed microvine model (DRCF-Dwarf Rapid Cycling and Continuous Flowering) was grown in climatic chambers in order to circumvent common constraints and biases inevitable in field experiments with perennial macrovines.
The present study is the first where whole plants grown in climatic chambers under precisely controlled cool conditions were subjected to a short but abrupt period of heat stress during day or at night.
Table 1 shows some of the characters of C3 and C4 plants growing in altered climatic conditions.
Considerable effort was made to choose individuals growing under similar climatic and edaphic conditions within a site.
Due to diverse growing locations and climatic factors, rice cultivars face cold stress at specific growth stages (Saito et al. [2001]).
Due to their long history of growing under diversified climatic and environmental conditions, a wide range of diversity exists in the Oryza genus (Childs 2004).
