Plant desiccation tolerance is of great basic and applied scientific interest. Understanding plant responses and adaptations to severe desiccation is key to applying desiccation tolerance research to the improvement of economically important crops. Plant Desiccation Tolerance brings together a field of international researchers to provide a current review of the advances in plant desiccation tolerance research. The book is broken up into three sections: Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance; Desiccation Tolerance of Pollen, Spores, and Seeds; and Applications of Desiccation Tolerance Research. Completely up-to-date and written by leading desiccation experts, Plant Desiccation Tolerance will be of great interest to plant researchers and plant and crop science professionals.

Section 1. Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance.1. Plant desiccation tolerance: diversity, distribution, andreal-world applications - Andrew J. Wood and Matthew A. Jenks.2. Lessons on dehydration tolerance from desiccation tolerantplants - Melvin Oliver.3. Mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in Angiospermresurrection plants - Jill M. Farrant.4. Desiccation tolerance in lichens - Richard P. Beckett andFarida V. Minibayeva.5. Desiccation tolerance: gene expression, pathways andregulation of gene expression - Dorothea Bartels, JonathonPhillips, and John Chandler.Section 2. Desiccation Tolerance of Pollen, Spores andSeeds.6. Seed desiccation-tolerance mechanisms - Patricia Berjak, JillM. Farrant, and Norman W. Pammenter.7. The glassy state in dry seeds and pollen - Olivier Leprinceand Julia Buitink.8. DNA structure and seed desiccation tolerance - IvanBroubriak, Shirley McCready, and Daphne J. Osborne.9. Structural dynamics and desiccation damage in plantreproductive organs - Christina Walters and Karen L. Koster.Section 3. Applications of Desiccation ToleranceResearch.10. Desiccation tolerance genes and avenues for crop improvement- Revel Iyer, Sagadevan G. Mundree, Mohamed Suhail Rafudeen, andJennifer Ann Thompson