The discovery, scope, and puzzle of desiccation tolerance in plants

By P. Alpert. Plant Ecology, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. P. Alpert
2. R. Rodriguez
3. R. Redman
4. A. Wood
5. N. L. Rocca
6. N. Rascio
7. Florian A. Werner
8. S. Robbert Gradstein

In Global and Planetary Change

1. P. Alpert
2. N. L. Rocca
3. N. Rascio
4. R. Rodriguez
5. R. Redman
6. S. Robbert Gradstein
7. Florian A. Werner

Citations in the corpus

• Stress tolerance in plants via habitat-adapted symbiosis (2008, background): “Still, relatively few species are able to thrive in habitats that impose high levels of abiotic stress (Alpert, 2000).”
• Desiccation-tolerance in bryophytes: a review (2007, background): “The long periods for which bryophytes can survive desiccation in the laboratory or in herbaria have often been a matter for remark (Alpert 2000).”
• Resurrection Plants: The Puzzle of Surviving Extreme Vegetative Desiccation (2005, background): “The fully desiccation-tolerant plants will be considered only briefly as they have been described in detail in several recent reviews (Oliver et al., 2000a, b; Proctor, 2000; Alpert, 2000; Proctor and Tuba, 2002).”
• Diversity of dry forest epiphytes along a gradient of human disturbance in the tropical Andes (2009, background): “These plants are limited in their ecological distribution by their inability to maintain a positive carbon balance during repeated cycles of wetting and drying (Alpert 2000).”
• Evidence of drought-induced stress on biotic crust moss in the Mojave Desert (2005, background): “Most critically, net carbon gain is not possible under repetitive rapid-dry events (Alpert 2000). Loss of chl and reduced growth rates can result from episodes of rapid desiccation (termed ‘degreening’; Schonbeck & Bewley 1981a, b). The authors suggested that rapid drying in Syntrichia disrupts thyl”
• Ecophysiology of Desiccation/Rehydration Cycles in Mosses and Lichens (2011, background): “Table 6.1 Selected data for survival of long periods of desiccation of various types of organisms (more data in Table 1 ‐ Alpert 2000 ) Species Desiccation period survived Reference Lichens Ramalina maciformis 1 year 1% WC Lange (1969) Lasallia pustulata >1 year air dry Lange (1953) Umbilicaria spp”
• More than 400 million years of evolution and some plants still can't make it on their own: plant stress tolerance via fungal symbiosis. (2008, background): “Since colonizing land ;400 million years ago, plants have evolved intragenomic mechanisms to perceive and transmit signals, and respond to stress (Bohnert et al., 1995; Bartels and Sunkar, 2005), but most plants lack the adaptive capability to mitigate the impacts of stress ( Alpert, 2000 ).”