Desiccation and survival in plants drying without dying / edited by M. Black and H.W. Pritchard.

• PART I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. Drying Without Dying / Peter Alpert and Melvin J. Oliver -- PART II. METHODOLOGY -- 2. Methods for the Study of Water Relations Under Desiccation Stress / Wendell Q. Sun -- 3. Experimental Aspects of Drying and Recovery / Norman W. Pammenter, Patricia Berjak, James Wesley-Smith and Clare Vander Willigen -- 4. Biochemical and Biophysical Methods for Quantifying Desiccation Phenomena in Seeds and Vegetative Tissues / Olivier Leprince and Elena A. Golovina -- PART III. BIOLOGY OF DEHYDRATION -- 5. Desiccation Sensitivity in Orthodox and Recalcitrant Seeds in Relation to Development / Allison R. Kermode and Bill E. Finch-Savage -- 6. Pollen and Spores: Desiccation Tolerance in Pollen and the Spores of Lower Plants and Fungi / Folkert A. Hoekstra -- 7. Vegetative Tissues: Bryophytes, Vascular Resurrection Plants and Vegetative Propagules / Michael C.F. Proctor and Valerie C. Pence -- 8. Systematic and Evolutionary Aspects of Desiccation Tolerance in Seeds / John B. Dickie and Hugh W. Pritchard -- PART IV. MECHANISMS OF DAMAGE AND TOLERANCE -- 9. Desiccation Stress and Damage / Christina Walters, Jill M. Farrant, Norman W. Pammenter and Patricia Berjak -- 10. Biochemistry and Biophysics of Tolerance Systems / Julia Buitink, Folkert A. Hoekstra and Olivier Leprince -- 11. Molecular Genetics of Desiccation and Tolerant Systems / Jonathan R. Phillips, Melvin J. Oliver and Dorothea Bartels -- 12. Rehydration of Dried Systems: Membranes and the Nuclear Genome / Daphne J. Osborne, Ivan Boubriak and Olivier Leprince -- PART V. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT -- 13. Damage and Tolerance in Retrospect and Prospect / Michael Black, Ralph L. Obendorf and Hugh W. Pritchard. 

• 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 levels of dehydration stress tolerance in biological systems; mechanisms of damage and tolerance; and a brief retrospect and prospect. Orthodox and recalcitrant seeds, pollen and spores, vegetative parts, and other plant tissues are covered in detail.

Ämnesord

Plant-water relationships  (LCSH)

Plants  -- Drought tolerance (LCSH)

Plants  -- Adaptation (LCSH)

Publikations- och innehållstyp

QK870 (LCC)

581.4 (DDC)

Uf (kssb/8 (machine generated))