Drying to equilibrium with the air kills nearly all animals and flowering plants, including
livestock and crops. This makes drought a key ecological problem for terrestrial life and a …

The haploid gametophyte stage of the moss life cycle is amenable to genetic and
biochemical studies. Many species can be cultured on simple defined media, where growth …

Drying to equilibrium with the air is lethal to most species of animals and plants, making
drought (ie, low external water potential) a central problem for terrestrial life and a major …

The modern scientific study of desiccation tolerance began in 1702 when Anthony von
Leeuwenhoek discovered that rotifers could survive without water for months. By 1860, the …

This introductory chapter summarizes some of the current answers to questions (how do
plants survive desiccation? and how does surviving desiccation affect plant survival?) and …

Although both lichens and bryophytes are all poikilohydric the groups seem to behave very
differently. Bryophytes also show a clear preference for wetter areas and this seems to be a …

Desiccation-tolerance is the unique ability to revive from the air-dried state. In this review, I
summarize the distribution of vegetative desiccation-tolerance within the land plants …

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 …

Abscisic acid (ABA) is not a plant-specific compound but one found in organisms across
kingdoms from bacteria to animals, suggesting that it is a ubiquitous and versatile substance …

Bryophytes have long been understood to be desiccation tolerant (capable of reviving from
an air-dry state, DT). While mechanistic studies focusing on the expression of this complex …