Water and Life

I Osmotic Solutes: Evolution, Function, and Regulation.- 1: Adapting to Water Stress: Convergence on Common Solutions.- 2: Compatible and Counteracting Aspects of Organic Osmolytes in Mammalian Kidney Cells in Vivo and in Vitro.- 3: Molecular Basis for Accumulation of Compatible Osmolytes in Mammalian Cells.- 4: Compatible Solute Synthesis and Compartmentation in Higher Plants.- 5: Osmotic Control of Transcription of the pro U Operon of Salmonella typhimurium.- 6: A Physicochemical Basis for the Selection of Osmolytes by Nature.- II Desiccation Stress.- 7: Membrane Integrity in Anhydrobiotic Organisms: Toward a Mechanism for Stabilizing Dry Cells.- 8: Water Content and Metabolic Organization in Anhydrobiotic Animals.- 9: Macroautophagy Triggered by Sucrose Starvation in Higher Plant Cells: Analysis of a Model for Prolonged Carbon Deprivation Under Water Stress.- 10: Desiccation Tolerance in Vegetative Plant Tissues and Seeds: Protein Synthesis in Relation to Desiccation and a Potential Role for Protection and Repair Mechanisms.- 11: Water in Dry Organisms.- III Plant-Water Compartmentation and Water Stress.- 12: The Biophysics of Plant Water: Compartmentation, Coupling with Metabolic Processes, and Flow of Water in Plant Roots.- 13: Water Compartmentation in Plant Tissue: Isotopic Evidence.- 14: Photosynthetic Water Oxidation and Water Stress in Plants.- 15: Desiccation and Freezing Phenomena for Plants with Large Water Capacitance - Cacti and Espeletias.- IV Freezing Stress.- 16: Ice Nucleating Agents in Cold-Hardy Insects.- 17: Hemolymph Proteins Involved in the Cold Tolerance of Terrestrial Arthropods: Antifreeze and Ice Nucleator Proteins.- 18: The Role of Antifreeze Glycopeptides and Peptides in the Survival of Cold-water Fishes.- 19: Freeze Thaw Injury and Cryoprotection of Thylakoid Membranes.- 20: Freeze-Induced Dehydration and Membrane Destabilization in Plants.