By Ulrich Lüttge,Erwin Beck,Dorothea Bartels
Desiccation tolerance was once crucial whilst vegetation first started to triumph over land, approximately four hundred million years in the past. whereas such a lot desiccation-tolerant crops belong to basal phylogenetic taxa, this capability has additionally developed between a few vascular plant species.
In this quantity popular specialists deal with plant desiccation tolerance on the organismic in addition to on the mobile point. the range of ecophysiological diversifications and acclimations of cyanobacteria, eukaryotic algae, mosses, and lichens is addressed in numerous chapters. the actual difficulties of vascular crops in the course of dehydration/rehydration cycles ensuing not just from their hydraulic architectures, but in addition from serious secondary stresses linked to the desiccated kingdom are mentioned. in accordance with the remedy of desiccation tolerance on the organismic point, a moment element of the booklet is dedicated to the telephone organic point. It delineates the final thoughts of sensible genomics, epigenetics, genetics, molecular biology and the sensing and signalling networks of platforms biology all in favour of dehydration/rehydration cycles.
This e-book offers a useful compilation of present wisdom, that is a prerequisite for a greater figuring out of plant desiccation tolerance in normal in addition to agro- and woodland ecosystems the place water is without doubt one of the so much crucial resources.
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