Desiccation and survival in plants : drying without dying /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Black, Michael, Pritchard, H. W.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York : CABI Pub., c2002.
Subjects:
Plant-water relationships.
Plants > Drought tolerance.
Plants > Adaptation.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Contributors
  • Preface
  • PART I. INTRODUCTION
  • 1 Drying Without Dying
  • Peter Alpert and Melvin J. Oliver
  • PART II. METHODOLOGY
  • 2 Methods for the Study of Water Relations Under Desiccation Stress
  • Wendell Q. Sun
  • 3 Experimental Aspects of Drying and Recovery
  • Norman W. Pammenter, Patricia Berjak, James Wesley-Smith and
  • Clare Vander Willigen
  • 4 Biochemical and Biophysical Methods for Quantifying Desiccation Phenomena in Seeds and Vegetative Tissues
  • Olivier Leprince and Elena A. Golovina
  • PART III. BIOLOGY OF DEHYDRATION
  • 5 Desiccation Sensitivity in Orthodox and Recalcitrant Seeds in Relation to Development
  • Allison R. Kermode and Bill E. Finch-Savage
  • 6 Pollen and Spores: Desiccation Tolerance in Pollen and the Spores of Lower Plants and Fungi
  • Folkert A. Hoekstra
  • 7 Vegetative Tissues: Bryophytes, Vascular Resurrection Plants and Vegetative Propagules
  • Michael C.F. Proctor and Valerie C. Pence
  • 8 Systematic and Evolutionary Aspects of Desiccation Tolerance in Seeds
  • John B. Dickie and Hugh W. Pritchard
  • PART IV. MECHANISMS OF DAMAGE AND TOLERANCE
  • 9 Desiccation Stress and Damage
  • Christina Walters, Jill M. Farrant, Norman W. Pammenter and Patricia Berjak
  • 10 Biochemistry and Biophysics of Tolerance Systems
  • Julia Buitink, Folkert A. Hoekstra and Olivier Leprince
  • 11 Molecular Genetics of Desiccation and Tolerant Systems
  • Jonathan R. Phillips, Melvin J. Oliver and Dorothea Bartels
  • 12 Rehydration of Dried Systems: Membranes and the Nuclear Genome
  • Daphne J. Osborne, Ivan Boubriak and Olivier Leprince
  • PART V. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT
  • 13 Damage and Tolerance in Retrospect and Prospect
  • Michael Black, Ralph L. Obendorf and Hugh W. Pritchard
  • Glossary
  • Taxonomic Index
  • Subject Index.

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