Plant Desiccation Tolerance
1. Auflage Oktober 2007
328 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
Understanding plant responses and adaptations to severe desiccation is key to applying desiccation tolerance research to the improvement of economically important crops. Plant Desiccation Tolerance brings together a field of international researchers to provide a current review of the advances in this field. Up-to-date and written by leading international experts, Plant Desiccation Tolerance will be of great interest to plant and crop science researchers and professionals.
Water is the key component of life, and most organisms cannot survive dehydration. The plants discussed in this book possess the unique ability to survive severe dehydration--up to and including the complete loss of water, also known as desiccation. As our changing climate demands that plants adapt to more extreme stresses, understanding the responses and adaptations of desiccation-tolerant plants to severe water loss is key to the improvement of economically important crops.
Plant Desiccation Tolerance brings together leading international researchers to provide an up-to-date review of the advances in plant desiccation tolerance research. The book is presented in three sections: Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance; Desiccation Tolerance of Pollen, Spores, and Seeds; and Applications of Desiccation Tolerance Research. Plant Desiccation Tolerance not only provides an excellent synthesis of information on this novel adaptation, but also looks forward to the potential applications that might be possible as our understanding of desiccation tolerance continues to expand.
Plant Desiccation Tolerance will be an indispensable source of information for plant biologists, crop science researchers and professionals.
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 .
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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. Desiccation tolerance genes and avenues for crop improvement
Dr. Andrew J. Wood is Professor of Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology in the Department of Plant Biology at Southern Illinois University.
