Exploring How Plants Interact With Cold Conditions | What Improves Resilience?
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Why can some plants survive in cold climates, but others cannot? Al Pacheco Kovaleski, an expert in cold hardiness and dormancy in plants, joins us today to discuss his perspective on this intriguing topic…
Al is an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here, he researches how plants control their cold hardiness and dormancy during the winter, and how that leads to bud break and flowering in the spring.
Listen in now to discover:
- The strategies plants use to survive cold winters.
- How evolution influences whether or not plants are able to live year-round.
- What you can do to add renaissance to your plants – even in harsh conditions.
- Why the study of acclimation is so complicated.
What insights does he share with fellow horticulturists? Click play to find out!
To learn more about Al and his research, visit Plantresilience.cals.wisc.edu now!
Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:00.0 | Things happen during the spring in terms of plants being damaged, right? |
| 0:05.3 | We have a frost in the spring. We'll see tissues dying and then it's very clear. |
| 0:10.8 | The plants are not cold hearted. They can't survive those below freezing temperatures |
| 0:14.9 | if the tissues freeze. Then they are filled or damaged in a significant way. |
| 0:19.0 | But that also during the winter, those tissues are there and they're alive. |
| 0:23.6 | And so that's what they're going through the winter, right? They're trying to keep |
| 0:28.0 | tissues that are alive in a certain way and they have to hold them in that manner |
| 0:34.0 | until growth resumes in the spring. So this is what plants are going through during that time. |
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| 1:18.2 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 1:21.4 | My guest today is Al Pacheco, Kobayleski. He's an assistant professor in the Department of |
| 1:26.1 | Horticulture at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I'm going to talk about dormancy and plants and |
| 1:31.9 | cold hardiness in the off season in the winter. So Al, thank you for coming. |
| 1:36.6 | Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:39.1 | Yeah, tell me a bit about your background and what got you interested in the |
| 1:42.8 | Horticulture and then especially, we'll talk about your research yet to that. |
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