What makes desiccation tolerable?
A comparison of drought tolerance in plants at extreme ends of the evolutionary spectrum is beginning to show the mechanisms involved.
Bohnert
H J
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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
D005075:Biological Evolution; D003890:Desiccation; D004190:Disasters; D010935:Plant Diseases; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism
D014867:Water