Resurrection Plants: The Puzzle of Surviving Extreme Vegetative Desiccation From: Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Rocca, N La; Rascio, N | Copyright CRC Press 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Tolerance to near complete desiccation of vegetative organs is a widespread capability in bryophytes and is also shared by a small group of vascular plants known as resurrection plants. To date more than 300 species, belonging to pteridophytes and angiosperms, have been identified that possess this kind of desiccation-tolerance. The vegetative desiccation-tolerance of resurrection plants is an inductive process displayed only under environmental stress with or without the involvement of absci...

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