Desiccation tolerance is the ability to survive loss of 90% of cellular water or dehydration to
tissue water concentrations of≤ 0.1 g H2O. g–1 dry mass. It is relatively common in …

Water is a major limiting factor in growth and reproduction in plants. The ability of tissues to
survive desiccation is commonly found in seeds or pollen but rarely present in vegetative …

Vegetative desiccation tolerance is a widespread but uncommon occurrence in the plant
kingdom generally. The majority of vegetative desiccation-tolerant plants are found in the …

In the past twenty years there has been a revolution in plant sciences, as new methods of
molecular biology and biophysics have been applied to investigate environmental stress …

Desiccation-tolerance (DT) evolved as the key solution to survival on land by the early algal
ancestors of terrestrial plants. This 'first'DT involved utilizing rapidly mobilisable repair …

In this chapter, the ability of vegetative tissues of a few angiosperm species, termed
resurrection plants (Gaff 1971), to tolerate loss of more than 95% of their cellular water is …

Drought is one of the main threats to agriculture worldwide because most of our staple crops
are not very tolerant to dehydration stress. Some 135 species of angiosperms, however, are …

It has been seven years since the Frontiers in Plant Science SI entitled “Current advances
and challenges in understanding plant desiccation tolerance”. There we noted a growing …

The importance of water deficit in plant protoplasm is not confined to the stress imposed on
plants by drought: protoplasmic water deficit is a major factor involved in the effects of other …

Plants undergo a series of physiological, biochemical and molecular changes in response to
adverse environmental conditions or stresses such as drought, low temperature or high salt …