This review distills recent information on drought resistance characteristics of grain legumes
with a view toward developing appropriate genetic enhancement strategies for water-limited …

Resurrection plants are regarded as excellent models to study the mechanisms associated
with desiccation tolerance. During the past years tremendous progress has been made in …

Soluble sugars have been shown to protect liposomes and lobster microsomes from
desiccation damage, and a protective role has been proposed for them in several anhydrous …

Relatively little ecophysiological research has been conducted to determine the responses
to drought of Phaseolus vulgaris. Four bean cultivars (cvs.) from Brazil, A320, Carioca, Ouro …

Drought (water stress) is one the major abiotic stress factors that affect all organisms lives
including human in terms of health and food. Water absence from the soil solutions affect the …

Changes in sugar content during water stress and recovery were examined in leaves of two
varieties of durum wheat (Triticutn durum). The drought‐resistant Mohamed Ben Bachir …

Three-week old soybean (Glycine max) plants were subjected to a factorial combination of
four regimes of soil matric water potential (ψm=− 0· 03,− 0· 5,− 1· 0 and− 1· 5 MPa), two …

This chapter discusses structural and physiological features of poikilohydrous autotrophs
and the different strategies in different ecological situations. It presents examples of …

In a search for the mechanism of desiccation tolerance, a comparison was made between
orthodox (desiccation‐tolerant) soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merrill) and recalcitrant …

Proteins inducible by dehydration and abscisic acid (ABA), have been identified in a number
of species and have been suggested to play a role in desiccation tolerance. Recently, we …