Plant Desiccation Tolerance
edited by Matthew A. Jenks

Plant Desiccation Tolerance provides a current review of the advances in plant desiccation tolerance research.

The book is broken up into three sections:

• Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance
• Desiccation Tolerance of Pollen, Spores, and Seeds
• Applications of Desiccation Tolerance Research

Completely up-to-date and written by leading desiccation experts, Plant Desiccation Tolerance will be of great benefit to plant researchers and plant and crop science professionals.

Contents

Vegetative Dessication Tolerance

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

Desiccation Tolerance of Pollen, Spores and Seeds

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

Applications of Desiccation Tolerance Research

10. Desiccation tolerance genes and avenues for crop improvement

Index

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