Plant desiccation tolerance [

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jenks, Matthew A. (Author), Wood, Andrew J. (Author)
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub , c2007
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Online Access:John Wiley
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Plant desiccation tolerance : diversity, distribution, and real-world applications
  • 2. Lessons on dehydration tolerance from desiccation-tolerant plants
  • 3. Mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in Angiosperm resurrection plants
  • 4. Desiccation tolerance in lichens
  • 5. Desiccation tolerance : gene expression, pathways and regulation of gene expression
  • 6. Seed desiccation-tolerance mechanisms
  • 7. The glassy state in dry seeds and pollen
  • 8. DNA structure and seed desiccation tolerance
  • 9. Structural dynamics and desiccation damage in plant reproductive organs
  • 10. XvSap1, a desiccation tolerance associated gene with potential for crop improvement