Desiccation and survival in plants : drying without dying /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002.
• Subjects: Plants > Drought tolerance.; Plant-water relationships.; Plants > Adaptation.; Plant Water Relations.; Environmental Tolerance of Plants.; Desiccation.; Desiccation tolerance.; Plant tissues.; Pollen.; Recalcitrant seeds.; Seeds.; Spores.; Water stress.; Electronic books.
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This multi-author book gives a comprehensive account of desiccation and plant survival, and of how plant cells deal with extreme water stress. There is a general introduction on desiccation, and then four sections dealing with: The technical background to desiccation studies; the frequency and level...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Drying Without Dying / Peter Alpert and Melvin J. Oliver
• Methodology
• Methods for the Study of Water Relations Under Desiccation Stress / Wendell Q. Sun
• Experimental Aspects of Drying and Recovery / Norman W. Pammenter, Patricia Berjak, James Wesley-Smith and Clare Vander Willigen
• Biochemical and Biophysical Methods for Quantifying Desiccation Phenomena in Seeds and Vegetative Tissues / Olivier Leprince and Elena A. Golovina
• Biology of Dehydration
• Desiccation Sensitivity in Orthodox and Recalcitrant Seeds in Relation to Development / Allison R. Kermode and Bill E. Finch-Savage
• Pollen and Spores : Desiccation Tolerance in Pollen and the Spores of Lower Plants and Fungi / Folkert A. Hoekstra
• Vegetative Tissues : Bryophytes, Vascular Resurrection Plants and Vegetative Propagules / Michael C.F. Proctor and Valerie C. Pence
• Systematic and Evolutionary Aspects of Desiccation Tolerance in Seeds / John B. Dickie and Hugh W. Pritchard
• Mechanisms of Damage and Tolerance
• Desiccation Stress and Damage / Christina Walters, Jill M. Farrant, Norman W. Pammenter and Patricia Berjak
• Biochemistry and Biophysics of Tolerance Systems / Julia Buitink, Folkert A. Hoekstra and Olivier Leprince
• Molecular Genetics of Desiccation and Tolerant Systems / Jonathan R. Phillips, Melvin J. Oliver and Dorothea Bartels
• Rehydration of Dried Systems : Membranes and the Nuclear Genome / Daphne J. Osborne, Ivan Boubriak and Olivier Leprince
• Retrospect and Prospect
• Damage and Tolerance in Retrospect and Prospect / Michael Black, Ralph L. Obendorf and Hugh W. Pritchard.