{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Suganami M"],"funding":["Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science"],"pagination":["3715"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12736433"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["14(24)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Cold winter injury is a significant challenge in cultivating tropical trees in temperate regions. The conventional solution involves heating the entire greenhouse to protect the plants; however, this approach is fuel-intensive and costly. This study investigated whether root-zone heating can mitigate cold injury in coffee trees. In the Control, non-heated treatments, leaf relative water content dropped to approximately 70%, leading to wilting, whereas in the Heat treatment, it remained above 90%. In the Control treatment, defoliation progressed, ultimately resulting in more than 50% leaf loss. In contrast, defoliation was reduced by approximately 20% with the Heat treatment. During the cold-treatment period, photosynthesis declined sharply in both the Control and Heat treatments, with CO<s"],"journal":["Plants (Basel, Switzerland)"],"pubmed_title":["Does Root-Zone Heating Mitigate the Cold Injury in Coffee Tree (&lt;i&gt;Coffea arabica&lt;/i&gt;)?"],"pmcid":["PMC12736433"],"funding_grant_id":["JP24H02257","5G4B1","JP21K14758"],"pubmed_authors":["Suganami M","Takata D","Saeki A","Iwasaki N"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Does Root-Zone Heating Mitigate the Cold Injury in Coffee Tree (&lt;i&gt;Coffea arabica&lt;/i&gt;)?","description":"Cold winter injury is a significant challenge in cultivating tropical trees in temperate regions. The conventional solution involves heating the entire greenhouse to protect the plants; however, this approach is fuel-intensive and costly. This study investigated whether root-zone heating can mitigate cold injury in coffee trees. In the Control, non-heated treatments, leaf relative water content dropped to approximately 70%, leading to wilting, whereas in the Heat treatment, it remained above 90%. In the Control treatment, defoliation progressed, ultimately resulting in more than 50% leaf loss. In contrast, defoliation was reduced by approximately 20% with the Heat treatment. During the cold-treatment period, photosynthesis declined sharply in both the Control and Heat treatments, with CO<s","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Dec","modification":"2026-05-27T08:03:24.286Z","creation":"2026-05-27T03:12:28.906Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12736433","cross_references":{"pubmed":["41470598"],"doi":["10.3390/plants14243715"]}}