Desiccation and survival in plants : drying without dying /

This book is divided into three sections, dealing with: the technical background to desiccation tolerance studies; the frequency and levels of dehydration stress tolerance in biological systems; mechanisms of damage and tolerance.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Black, Michael, 1932-, Pritchard, H. W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York : CABI Pub., ©2002.
Subjects:
Plant-water relationships.
Plants > Drought tolerance.
Plants > Adaptation.
Relations plante-eau.
Plantes > Résistance à la sécheresse.
Plantes > Adaptation.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
Desiccation.
Desiccation tolerance.
Plant tissues.
Pollen.
Recalcitrant seeds.
Seeds.
Spores.
Water stress.
Plant-water relationships
Plants > Adaptation
Plants > Drought tolerance
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors; Preface; Part I Introduction; 1 Drying Without Dying; Part II Methodology; 2 Methods for the Study of Water Relations Under Desiccation Stress; 3 Experimental Aspects of Drying and Recovery; 4 Biochemical and Biophysical Methods for Quantifying Desiccation Phenomena in Seeds and Vegetative Tissues; Part III Biology of Dehydration; 5 Desiccation Sensitivity in Orthodox and Recalcitrant Seeds in Relation to Development; 6 Pollen and Spores: Desiccation Tolerance in Pollen and the Spores of Lower Plants and Fungi.

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