Plant Desiccation Tolerance

1. Introduction
Dorothea Bartels, Ulrich Lüttge, Erwin Beck

2. Cyanobacteria: Habitats and Species
Burkhard Büdel

3. Cyanobacteria: Multiple Stresses, Desiccation-Tolerant Photosynthesis and Di-nitrogen Fixation
Ulrich Lüttge

4. Eukaryotic Algae
Burkhard Büdel

5. Lichens and Bryophytes: Habitats and Species
Michael Lakatos

6. Ecophysiology of Desiccation/Rehydration Cycles in Mosses and Lichens
T. G. Allan Green, Leopoldo G. Sancho, Ana Pintado

7. Lichens and Bryophytes: Light Stress and Photoinhibition in Desiccation/Rehydration Cycles – Mechanisms of Photoprotection
Ulrich Heber, Ulrich Lüttge

8. Evolution, Diversity, and Habitats of Poikilohydrous Vascular Plants
Stefan Porembski

9. Ecophysiology of Homoiochlorophyllous and Poikilochlorophyllous Desiccation-Tolerant Plants and Vegetations
Zoltán Tuba, Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler

10. Hydraulic Architecture of Vascular Plants
Ernst Steudle

11. Drought, Desiccation, and Oxidative Stress
Renate Scheibe, Erwin Beck

12.
Chamaegigas intrepidus DINTER: An Aquatic Poikilohydric Angiosperm that Is Perfectly Adapted to Its Complex and Extreme Environmental Conditions
Hermann Heilmeier, Wolfram Hartung

13. Molecular Biology and Physiological Genomics of Dehydration Stress
Ruth Grene, Cecilia Vasquez-Robinet, Hans J. Bohnert

14. Dehydrins: Molecular Biology, Structure and Function
Sylvia K. Eriksson, Pia Harryson

15. Understanding Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance Using Integrated Functional Genomics Approaches Within a Comparative Evolutionary Framework
John C. Cushman, Melvin J. Oliver

16. Resurrection Plants: Physiology and Molecular Biology
Dorothea Bartels, Syed Sarfraz Hussain

17. Synopsis: Drying Without Dying
Dorothea Bartels, Ulrich Lüttge, Erwin Beck

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Ecology, Plant Physiology, Plant Genetics & Genomics, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Anatomy/Development