Plant Desiccation Tolerance

1. Plant desiccation tolerance: diversity, distribution, and real-world applications - Andrew J. Wood and Matthew A. Jenks.

2. Lessons on dehydration tolerance from desiccation tolerant plants - Melvin Oliver.

3. Mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in Angiosperm resurrection plants - Jill M. Farrant.

4. Desiccation tolerance in lichens - Richard P. Beckett and Farida V. Minibayeva.

5. Desiccation tolerance: gene expression, pathways and regulation of gene expression - Dorothea Bartels, Jonathon Phillips, and John Chandler.

Section 2. Desiccation Tolerance of Pollen, Spores and Seeds.

6. Seed desiccation-tolerance mechanisms - Patricia Berjak, Jill M. Farrant, and Norman W. Pammenter.

7. The glassy state in dry seeds and pollen - Olivier Leprince and Julia Buitink.

8. DNA structure and seed desiccation tolerance - Ivan Broubriak, Shirley McCready, and Daphne J. Osborne.

9. Structural dynamics and desiccation damage in plant reproductive organs - Christina Walters and Karen L. Koster.

Section 3. Applications of Desiccation Tolerance Research.

10. Desiccation tolerance genes and avenues for crop improvement - Revel Iyer, Sagadevan G. Mundree, Mohamed Suhail Rafudeen, and Jennifer Ann Thompson