Abstract
During cold seasons, fairy primroses secrete various amounts of farinose flavone through specialized trichomes. In this issue, Isshiki et al. (pp. 181–188) query the role of flavone in frost protection, and observed that the ice nucleation temperatures closely correlated with amounts of flavone produced by selected cultivars, and exogenous application of flavone efficiently protected leaves and buds from freezing.
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