In response to various environmental stresses, plants have evolved a wide range of defense
mechanisms, resulting in the overexpression of a series of stress-responsive genes. Among …

Tardigrades are ubiquitous microinvertebrates exhibiting extreme tolerance to various
environmental stressors like low and high temperatures, lack of water, or high radiation …

How horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has contributed to the evolution of animals and plants
remains a major puzzle. Despite recent progress, defining the overall scale and pattern of …

Background Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins are large groups of hydrophilic
proteins with major role in drought and other abiotic stresses tolerance in plants. In-depth …

To deal with increasingly severe periods of dehydration related to global climate change, it
becomes increasingly important to understand the complex strategies many organisms have …

A plethora of diverse programmed cell death (PCD) processes has been described in living
organisms. In animals and plants, different forms of PCD play crucial roles in development …

Desiccation tolerance appeared as the key adaptation feature of photoautotrophic
organisms for survival in terrestrial habitats. During the further evolution, vascular plants …

Stomata control gas exchanges between the plant and the atmosphere. How natural
variation in stomata size and density contributes to resolve trade‐offs between carbon …

Lipids are the primary form of energy storage and a major component of plasma
membranes, which form the interface between the cell and the extracellular environment …

Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins are a diverse and large group of polypeptides
that play important roles in desiccation and freezing tolerance in plants. The LEA family has …