title: What makes desiccation tolerable?
abstract: A comparison of drought tolerance in plants at extreme ends of the evolutionary spectrum is beginning to show the mechanisms involved.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Biochemistry, Plant Sciences, and Molecular and Cellular Biology, The University of Arizona, 1041 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721-0088, USA. bohnerth@u.arizona.edu
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Bohnert
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003890:Desiccation; D004190:Disasters; D010935:Plant Diseases; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014867:Water