Plant Desiccation Tolerance

Desiccation tolerance was essential when plants first began to conquer land, roughly 400 million years ago. While most desiccation-tolerant plants belong to basal phylogenetic taxa, this capacity has also evolved among some vascular plant species.

Introduction.- Cyanobacteria: Habitats and Species.- Cyanobacteria: Multiple Stresses, Desiccation Tolerant Photosynthesis and Di-nitrogen Fixation.- Eucaryotic Algae.- Lichens and Bryophytes - Habitats and Species.- Ecophysiology of Desiccation/Rehydration Cycles in Mosses and Lichens.- Lichens and Bryophytes - Light Stress and Photoinhibition in Desiccation/ Rehydration Cycles: Mechanisms of Photoprotection.- Evolution, Diversity and Habitats of Poikilohydrous Vascular Plants.- Ecophysiology of Homoiochlorophyllous and Poikilochlorophyllous Desiccation-Tolerant Plants.- Hydraulic Architecture of Vascular Plants.- Drought, Desiccation and Oxidative Stress.- Chamaegigas intrepidus DINTER - an Aquatic Poikilohydric Angiosperm that is Perfectly Adapted to its Complex and Extreme Environmental Conditions.- Molecular Biology and Physiological Genomics of Dehydration Stress.- Dehydrins: Molecular Biology, Structure and Function.- Understanding Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance using Integrated Functional Genomics Approaches Within a Comparative Evolutionary Framework.- Resurrection Plants: Physiology and Molecular Biology.- Synopsis.