An Overview of the Current Understanding of Desiccation Tolerance in the Vegetative Tissues of Higher Plants

Advances in Botanical Research

Volumn 57, Issue , 2011, Pages 319-347

  Morse, Monique ^a   Rafudeen, Mohamed S ^a   Farrant, Jill M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Desiccation tolerance; Genomics; Metabolomics; Proteomics; Resurrection plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955136850     PISSN: 00652296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-387692-8.00009-6     Document Type: Book

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