Plant Desiccation Tolerance

Part I Introduction  

Chapter 1 Introduction D. Bartels, E. Beck and U. Lüttge

Part II The Organismic Level  

Chapter 2 Cyanobacteria : Habitats and Species B. Büdel  

Chapter 3 Cyanobacteria: Multiple Stresses, Desiccation Tolerant Photosynthesis and Di-nitrogen Fixation U. Lüttge

Chapter 4 Eucaryotic Algae B. Büdel

Chapter 5 Lichens and Bryophytes - Habitats and Species M. Lakatos

Chapter 6 Ecophysiology of Desiccation/Rehydration Cycles in Mosses and Lichens T. G. Green, L. G. Sancho and A.  Pintado

Chapter 7 Lichens and Bryophytes - Light Stress and Photoinhibition in Desiccation/ Rehydration Cycles: Mechanisms of Photoprotection U. Heber and U.  Lüttge  

Chapter 8 Evolution, Diversity and Habitats of Poikilohydrous Vascular Plants St. Porembski  

Chapter 9 Ecophysiology of Homoiochlorophyllous and Poikilochlorophyllous Desiccation-Tolerant Plants Z. Tuba and H. K.  Lichtenthaler                                                                                  

Chapter 10 Hydraulic Architecture of Vascular Plants E. Steudle  

Chapter 11 Drought, Desiccation and Oxidative Stress R. Scheibe and E. Beck  

Chapter 12 Chamaegigas intrepidus DINTER - an Aquatic Poikilohydric Angiosperm that is Perfectly Adapted to its Complex and Extreme Environmental Conditions W. Hartung and H. Heilmeier  

Part III The Cell Biological Level  

Chapter 13 Molecular Biology and Physiological Genomics of Dehydration Stress Ruth Grene, C. Vasquez-Robinet and H. J. Bohnert  

Chapter 14 Dehydrins: Molecular Biology, Structure and Function S. K. Eriksson and Pia Harryson

Chapter 15 Understanding Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance Using  Integrated  Functional Genomics Approaches Within a Comparative Evolutionary Framework J. C. Cushman and M. J. Oliver  

Chapter 16 Resurrection Plants: Physiology and Molecular Biology D. Bartels and S. S. Hussain  

Part IV Synopsis  

Chapter 17 Synopsis D. Bartels, E. Beck and U.

Erwin Beck is Emeritus Professor of Plant Physiology. He got his doctoral degree in Plant Systematics from the University of Munich. From1975 until 2007 he was Full Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Bayreuth. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications and edited several books. He was President of the German Biologists Association, and of the German Botanical Society, and Treasurer of the International Union of Biological Sciences. Since 2008 he chairs the Commission of Biodiversity Research of the German Research Foundation. He received several awards and is Honorary Professor of the Technical University of Loja (Ecuador). Until 2004 Ulrich Lüttge taught at the Institute for Botany at the TU Darmstadt. He is an experienced teacher and is concerned with membrane physiology and biochemistry, circadian rhythms among photosynthesis processes as well as the antioxidative defense system of plants

From the reviews:

"This well-edited compendium of up-to-date, comprehensive, and extensively referenced articles considers a multitude of extreme tolerance phenomena in both microorganisms and higher plants and the variety of adaptations employed. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners." (W. Loescher, Choice, Vol. 49 (10), June, 2012)

From the reviews:

"This well-edited compendium of up-to-date, comprehensive, and extensively referenced articles considers a multitude of extreme tolerance phenomena in both microorganisms and higher plants and the variety of adaptations employed. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners." (W. Loescher, Choice, Vol. 49 (10), June, 2012)