Programming desiccation-tolerance: From plants to seeds to resurrection plants

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 340-345

  Farrant, Jill M ^a   Moore, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WATER;

ADAPTATION; CRATEROSTIGMA; DESICCATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CRATEROSTIGMA; DESICCATION; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MOHRIA CAFFRORUM; SELAGINELLA PILIFERA; SPERMATOPHYTA; TORTULA RURALIS;

EID: 79957683673     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2011.03.018     Document Type: Review

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