Plant Desiccation Tolerance

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lüttge, Ulrich (Editor), Beck, Erwin (Editor), Bartels, Dorothea (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Ecological Studies, Analysis and Synthesis, 215
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant biochemistry.; Plant ecology.; Plant anatomy.; Plant development.; Plant genetics.; Plant physiology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Plant Biochemistry.; Plant Anatomy/Development.

Desiccation tolerance was essential when plants first began to conquer land, roughly 400 million years ago. While most desiccation-tolerant plants belong to basal phylogenetic taxa, this capacity has also evolved among some vascular plant species. In this volume renowned experts treat plant desiccat...