The Effect of Low Temperature on Metabolism of Membrane Lipids in Plants and Associated Gene Expression (Report‪)‬

Introduction When exposed to different stresses, plants have different ways of dealing with it to compensate for their lack of mobility. Cold is an abiotic stress that has been intensively studied in plants because of its negative effects on plant growth and development which is related to yield and productivity rates in cultivated crops. This is a limiting factor for growing plants from warmer areas in different climatic area where the temperature is less suitable for cultivation The plants response to cold varies from species to species and even within the same plant family. However, regardless of plant species complexity, one major common mechanism used by plants to deal with cold stress is changes in membrane lipid composition to protect its membrane stability and integrity. It was reported that there is also a great accumulation of soluble sugars in response to cold stress (Deryabin et al. 2005) and even the major role