Photostasis and cold acclimation: sensing low temperature through photosynthesis

I Ensminger, F Busch, NPA Huner - Physiologia Plantarum, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Photosynthesis is a highly integrated and regulated process which is highly sensitive to any
change in environmental conditions, because it needs to balance the light energy absorbed …

Desiccation-tolerance in bryophytes: a review

MCF Proctor, MJ Oliver, AJ Wood, P Alpert, LR Stark… - The bryologist, 2007 - BioOne
Abstract Desiccation-tolerance (DT), the ability to lose virtually all free intracellular water and
then recover normal function upon rehydration, is one of the most remarkable features of …

Desiccation tolerance in resurrection plants: new insights from transcriptome, proteome and metabolome analysis

C Dinakar, D Bartels - Frontiers in plant science, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Most higher plants are unable to survive desiccation to an air-dried state. An exception is a
small group of vascular angiosperm plants, termed resurrection plants. They have evolved …

Photosynthesis in desiccation tolerant plants: energy metabolism and antioxidative stress defense

C Dinakar, D Djilianov, D Bartels - Plant Science, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

Overexpression of an Arabidopsis thaliana galactinol synthase gene improves drought tolerance in transgenic rice and increased grain yield in the field

MG Selvaraj, T Ishizaki, M Valencia… - Plant biotechnology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Drought stress has often caused significant decreases in crop production which could be
associated with global warming. Enhancing drought tolerance without a grain yield penalty …

Diversity and distribution of plant metallothioneins: a review of structure, properties and functions

OI Leszczyszyn, HT Imam, CA Blindauer - Metallomics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
More than 30 years have passed since the discovery of the first plant metallothionein in
wheat embryos, from which the emergence of a uniquely diverse metallothionein family with …

The evolution of desiccation tolerance in angiosperm plants: a rare yet common phenomenon

DF Gaff, M Oliver - Functional Plant Biology, 2013 - CSIRO Publishing
In a minute proportion of angiosperm species, rehydrating foliage can revive from airdryness
or even from equilibration with air of~ 0% RH. Such desiccation tolerance is known from …

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

JM Farrant, JP Moore - Current opinion in plant biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Desiccation-tolerance (DT) evolved as the key solution to survival on land by the early algal
ancestors of terrestrial plants. This 'first'DT involved utilizing rapidly mobilisable repair …

A WRKY transcription factor participates in dehydration tolerance in Boea hygrometrica by binding to the W-box elements of the galactinol synthase (BhGolS1) …

Z Wang, Y Zhu, L Wang, X Liu, Y Liu, J Phillips, X Deng - Planta, 2009 - Springer
Accumulation of compatible osmolytes, such as soluble sugars, in plants is an important
osmoprotective mechanism. Sugars play a role in osmotic adjustment and are associated …

Mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in angiosperm resurrection plants

JM Farrant - Plant desiccation tolerance, 2007 - books.google.com
In this chapter, the ability of vegetative tissues of a few angiosperm species, termed
resurrection plants (Gaff 1971), to tolerate loss of more than 95% of their cellular water is …