By Mae Smith
Columnist 

Plant adaptations to freezing

 

January 11, 2017



The Big Horn Basin has an incredible temperature range. In the last six months, I saw 104 degrees in the summer and 36 degrees BELOW zero last week!

Humans are lucky to spend most of their time in nice, temperature-controlled buildings but plants aren’t that lucky. It is really quite amazing that plants can survive these temperature extremes. How do they do it? I’ll focus on plant adaptatio...



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