Bryophytes as experimental models for the study of environmental stress tolerance: Tortula ruralis and desiccation-tolerance in mosses

By Melvin J. Oliver, J. Velten, A. Wood. Plant Ecology, 2000

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The importance of colony structure versus shoot morphology for the water balance of 22 subarctic bryophyte species (2011, background): “Our estimation of water content of Racomitrium lanuginosum with external water removed (127 3% dwt) is also close to that of Proctor (1999), who reported shoots contained 134 5% dw water after blotting and 121 4% dw at full turgor.”
The bryophyte paradox: tolerance of desiccation, evasion of drought (2000, background): “Recovery from desiccation of fully DT plants, including bryophtes, must always entail at least some element of repair of damage incurred during desiccation or remoistening (Bewley & Oliver 1992; Oliver 1996; Oliver & Bewley 1997; Oliver et al. 1998, 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).”