Desiccation and survival in plants : drying without dying /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK :
CABI,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Drying Without Dying / Peter Alpert and Melvin J. Oliver
- Methodology
- Methods for the Study of Water Relations Under Desiccation Stress / Wendell Q. Sun
- Experimental Aspects of Drying and Recovery / Norman W. Pammenter, Patricia Berjak, James Wesley-Smith and Clare Vander Willigen
- Biochemical and Biophysical Methods for Quantifying Desiccation Phenomena in Seeds and Vegetative Tissues / Olivier Leprince and Elena A. Golovina
- Biology of Dehydration
- Desiccation Sensitivity in Orthodox and Recalcitrant Seeds in Relation to Development / Allison R. Kermode and Bill E. Finch-Savage
- Pollen and Spores : Desiccation Tolerance in Pollen and the Spores of Lower Plants and Fungi / Folkert A. Hoekstra
- Vegetative Tissues : Bryophytes, Vascular Resurrection Plants and Vegetative Propagules / Michael C.F. Proctor and Valerie C. Pence
- Systematic and Evolutionary Aspects of Desiccation Tolerance in Seeds / John B. Dickie and Hugh W. Pritchard
- Mechanisms of Damage and Tolerance
- Desiccation Stress and Damage / Christina Walters, Jill M. Farrant, Norman W. Pammenter and Patricia Berjak
- Biochemistry and Biophysics of Tolerance Systems / Julia Buitink, Folkert A. Hoekstra and Olivier Leprince
- Molecular Genetics of Desiccation and Tolerant Systems / Jonathan R. Phillips, Melvin J. Oliver and Dorothea Bartels
- Rehydration of Dried Systems : Membranes and the Nuclear Genome / Daphne J. Osborne, Ivan Boubriak and Olivier Leprince
- Retrospect and Prospect
- Damage and Tolerance in Retrospect and Prospect / Michael Black, Ralph L. Obendorf and Hugh W. Pritchard.