Plant Desiccation Tolerance

ISBN-13: 9783642191053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 406 str.

Ulrich Luttge; Erwin Beck; Dorothea Bartels

Opis

Desiccation tolerance was essential when plants first began to conquer land, roughly 400 million years ago. While most desiccation-tolerant plants belong to basal phylogenetic taxa, this capacity has also evolved among some vascular plant species.In this volume renowned experts treat plant desiccation tolerance at the organismic as well as at the cellular level. The diversity of ecophysiological adaptations and acclimations of cyanobacteria, eukaryotic algae, mosses, and lichens is addressed in several chapters. The particular problems of vascular plants during dehydration/rehydration cycles resulting not only from their hydraulic architectures, but also from severe secondary stresses associated with the desiccated state are discussed. Based on the treatment of desiccation tolerance at the organismic level, a second section of the book is devoted to the cell biological level. It delineates the general concepts of functional genomics, epigenetics, genetics, molecular biology and the sensing and signalling networks of systems biology involved in dehydration/rehydration cycles. This book provides an invaluable compilation of current knowledge, which is a prerequisite for a better understanding of plant desiccation tolerance in natural as well as agro- and forest ecosystems where water is one of the most essential resources.

Recenzje

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)

Spis treści

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. Lüttge

 

Subject Index

O autorze

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