Plant Desiccation Tolerance

• Introduction.- Cyanobacteria: Habitats and Species.- Cyanobacteria: Multiple Stresses, Desiccation Tolerant Photosynthesis and Di-nitrogen Fixation.- Eucaryotic Algae.- Lichens and Bryophytes – Habitats and Species.- Ecophysiology of Desiccation/Rehydration Cycles in Mosses and Lichens.- Lichens and Bryophytes – Light Stress and Photoinhibition in Desiccation/ Rehydration Cycles: Mechanisms of Photoprotection.- Evolution, Diversity and Habitats of Poikilohydrous Vascular Plants.- Ecophysiology of Homoiochlorophyllous and Poikilochlorophyllous Desiccation-Tolerant Plants.- Hydraulic Architecture of Vascular Plants.- Drought, Desiccation and Oxidative Stress.- Chamaegigas intrepidus DINTER – an Aquatic Poikilohydric Angiosperm that is Perfectly Adapted to its Complex and Extreme Environmental Conditions.- Molecular Biology and Physiological Genomics of Dehydration Stress.- Dehydrins: Molecular Biology, Structure and Function.- Understanding Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance using Integrated Functional Genomics Approaches Within a Comparative Evolutionary Framework.- Resurrection Plants: Physiology and Molecular Biology.- Synopsis.

From the reviews: "This well-edited compendium of up-to-date, comprehensive, and extensively referenced articles considers a multitude of extreme tolerance phenomena in both microorganisms and higher plants and the variety of adaptations employed. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners." (W. Loescher, Choice, Vol. 49 (10), June, 2012)