Plant Desiccation Tolerance -

Plant Desiccation Tolerance

Buch | Softcover
XVIII, 386 Seiten
2013 | 2011
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-26871-7 (ISBN)
213,99 inkl. MwSt
Plant desiccation tolerance is found in all phyla of chlorophyll-containing species, from prokaryotes and cryptogams to angiosperms. This volume covers the organismic as well as the cell biological and molecular levels of this phenomenon.

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.

Ulrich Lüttge lehrte bis zum Jahr 2004 als Ordinarius am Institut für Botanik der Technischen Universität Darmstadt. Ulrich Lüttges Arbeitsgruppe beschäftigt sich u.a mit Membranphysiologie und -biochemie, circadianer Rhythmik von Photosyntheseprozessen sowie dem antioxidativen Verteidigungssystem der Pflanze.

Erwin Beck is Emeritus Professor of Plant Physiology. He got his doctoral degree in Plant Systematics from the University of Munich. From1975 until 2007 he was Full Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Bayreuth. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications and edited several books. He was President of the German Biologists Association, and of the German Botanical Society, and Treasurer of the International Union of Biological Sciences. Since 2008 he chairs the Commission of Biodiversity Research of the German Research Foundation. He received several awards and is Honorary Professor of the Technical University of Loja (Ecuador).

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)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.8.2013
Reihe/Serie Ecological Studies
Zusatzinfo XVIII, 386 p.
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 617 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Botanik
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Schlagworte desiccation/rehydration cycles • hono-/poikilochlorophylly • late embryogenic abundant proteins • plant stress • resurrection plants
ISBN-10 3-642-26871-4 / 3642268714
ISBN-13 978-3-642-26871-7 / 9783642268717
Zustand Neuware
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