Plant Desiccation Tolerance (eBook)

Ulrich Lüttge, Erwin Beck, Dorothea Bartels (Herausgeber)

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2011 | 2011
XVIII, 386 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-19106-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Desiccation tolerance was essential when plants first began to conquer land, roughly 400 million years ago. While most desiccation-tolerant plants belong to basal phylogenetic taxa, this capacity has also evolved among some vascular plant species.

In this volume renowned experts treat plant desiccation tolerance at the organismic as well as at the cellular level. The diversity of ecophysiological adaptations and acclimations of cyanobacteria, eukaryotic algae, mosses, and lichens is addressed in several chapters. The particular problems of vascular plants during dehydration/rehydration cycles resulting not only from their hydraulic architectures, but also from severe secondary stresses associated with the desiccated state are discussed. Based on the treatment of desiccation tolerance at the organismic level, a second section of the book is devoted to the cell biological level. It delineates the general concepts of functional genomics, epigenetics, genetics, molecular biology and the sensing and signalling networks of systems biology involved in dehydration/rehydration cycles.

This book provides an invaluable compilation of current knowledge, which is a prerequisite for a better understanding of plant desiccation tolerance in natural as well as agro- and forest ecosystems where water is one of the most essential resources.

Inhalt

Part I Introduction Chapter 1 IntroductionD. Bartels, E. Beck and U. Lüttge  Part II The Organismic Level Chapter 2 Cyanobacteria : Habitats and SpeciesB. Büdel Chapter 3  Cyanobacteria: Multiple Stresses, Desiccation Tolerant Photosynthesis and Di-nitrogen Fixation    U. Lüttge                                           Chapter 4  Eucaryotic Algae    B. Büdel                                                                                  Chapter 5 Lichens and Bryophytes – Habitats and SpeciesM. Lakatos Chapter 6 Ecophysiology of Desiccation/Rehydration Cycles in Mosses and Lichens T. G. Green, L. G. Sancho and A.  Pintado Chapter 7 Lichens and Bryophytes – Light Stress and Photoinhibition in Desiccation/ Rehydration Cycles: Mechanisms of Photoprotection            U. Heber and U.  Lüttge Chapter 8 Evolution, Diversity and Habitats of Poikilohydrous Vascular PlantsSt. Porembski Chapter 9 Ecophysiology of Homoiochlorophyllous and Poikilochlorophyllous Desiccation-Tolerant Plants Z. Tuba and H. K.  Lichtenthaler                                                                                  Chapter 10 Hydraulic Architecture of Vascular PlantsE. Steudle Chapter 11 Drought, Desiccation and Oxidative StressR. Scheibe and E. Beck Chapter 12 Chamaegigas intrepidus DINTER – an Aquatic Poikilohydric Angiosperm that is Perfectly Adapted to its Complex and Extreme Environmental Conditions W. Hartung and H. Heilmeier Part III  The Cell Biological Level Chapter 13 Molecular Biology and Physiological Genomics of Dehydration StressRuth Grene, C. Vasquez-Robinet and H. J. Bohnert Chapter 14 Dehydrins: Molecular Biology, Structure and FunctionS. K. Eriksson and Pia Harryson    Chapter 15 Understanding Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance Using  Integrated  Functional Genomics Approaches Within a Comparative Evolutionary FrameworkJ. C. Cushman and M. J. Oliver Chapter 16 Resurrection Plants: Physiology and Molecular BiologyD. Bartels and S. S. Hussain Part IV Synopsis Chapter 17 SynopsisD. Bartels, E. Beck and U. Lüttge Subject Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Ecological Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Ecological Studies
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 386 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: desiccation/rehydration cycles • hono-/poikilochlorophylly • late embryogenic abundant proteins • plant stress • resurrection plants
• ISBN-10: 3-642-19106-1 / 3642191061
• ISBN-13: 978-3-642-19106-0 / 9783642191060