[NAFEX] Hardening-off Question

Lucky Pittman lucky.pittman at murraystate.edu
Wed Aug 10 09:46:43 EDT 2005


At 07:18 AM 8/10/2005, J.Fruth wrote:
>    Here's a question a lot of us wold like to know the answer to:  Does
>anyone have an answer?  "Physiologically speaking, what happens inside the
>branches, twigs, trunk, etc. of fruit trees as the harden off for the
>winter?"

Jim,
I'm not a plant physiologist/pathologist, but I suspect the answer lies in 
the degree of lignification - development of increasing amounts of lignins 
- the compounds which give woody plants(as well as grasses) much of their 
structural integrity.

Lucky




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