Plant desiccation tolerance [electronic resource] / Ulrich Lüttge, Erwin Beck, Dorothea Bartels, editors.

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 desiccat...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors:	Lüttge, Ulrich, Beck, Erwin, Bartels, Dorothea
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, ©2011.
Series:	Ecological studies ; v. 215.
Subjects:	Plant-water relationships. Plants > Drought tolerance. Drought-tolerant plants. Plants > Adaptation.