Ethanol application enhances freezing stress tolerance in Arabidopsis and sugar beet
Daisuke Todaka, Kentaro Nakaminami, Akihiro Matsui, Seishi Ikeda, Quynh Thi Nhu Do, Maho Tanaka, Satoshi Takahashi, Chieko Torii, Junko Ishida, Tomoyuki Takeda, Atsushi J Nagano, Motoaki Seki · 2026
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Description
Daisuke Todaka and colleagues published a 2026 plant study showing that a little ethanol helps seedlings survive freezing. The group had earlier found that ethanol pretreatment toughens plants against salt, heat, bright light, and drought. Here they pretreated Arabidopsis, a standard laboratory plant, and sugar beet with dilute ethanol before exposing them to freezing temperatures, comparing them with water-treated controls.
Ethanol-pretreated Arabidopsis kept more green leaf area and survived better, both on agar plates and in soil. Sugar beet seedlings in soil also survived freezing at higher rates after an ethanol soak. Gene activity analysis showed stress-protection genes and pigment-producing genes switching on, with oxygen-stress responses prominent. The authors present ethanol as a cheap chemical primer for crop cold protection.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Daisuke Todaka, Kentaro Nakaminami, Akihiro Matsui, Seishi Ikeda, Quynh Thi Nhu Do, Maho Tanaka, Satoshi Takahashi, Chieko Torii, Junko Ishida, Tomoyuki Takeda, Atsushi J Nagano, Motoaki Seki |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |