Desiccation of plants is often lethal but is tolerated by the majority of seeds and by
vegetative tissues of only a small number of land plants. Desiccation tolerance is an ancient …

Metabolomics is one omics approach that can be used to acquire comprehensive
information on the composition of a metabolite pool to provide a functional screen of the …

In recent years, with the outbreak and epidemic of the novel coronavirus in the world, how to
obtain clean water from the limited resources has become an urgent issue of concern to all …

Most higher plants are unable to survive desiccation to an air-dried state. An exception is a
small group of vascular angiosperm plants, termed resurrection plants. They have evolved …

The survival of extreme water deficit stress by tolerant organisms requires a coordinated
series of responses, including those at cellular, transcriptional, translational and metabolic …

Drought stress is expected to increase in intensity, frequency, and duration in many parts of
the world, with potential negative impacts on plant growth and productivity. The plants have …

Purine catabolism is regarded as a housekeeping function that remobilizes nitrogen for plant
growth and development. However, emerging evidence suggests that certain purine …

Usually regarded as less evolved than their more recently diverged vascular sisters, which
currently dominate vegetation landscape, bryophytes seem having nothing to envy to the …

Like all eukaryotic organisms, plants possess an innate program for controlled cellular
demise termed programmed cell death (PCD). Despite the functional conservation of PCD …

The resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum possesses an extraordinary capacity to
survive long‐term desiccation. To enhance our understanding of this phenomenon …