Plant Desiccation Tolerance

<p>Part I Introduction</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 1 Introduction</p><p>D. Bartels, E. Beck and U. Lüttge </p><p> </p><p>Part II The Organismic Level</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 2 Cyanobacteria : Habitats and Species</p><p>B. Büdel</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 3  Cyanobacteria: Multiple Stresses, Desiccation Tolerant Photosynthesis and Di-nitrogen Fixation    </p><p>U. Lüttge                                          </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 4  Eucaryotic Algae    </p><p>B. Büdel</p><p>                                                                                  </p><p>Chapter 5 Lichens and Bryophytes – Habitats and Species</p><p>M. Lakatos</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 6 Ecophysiology of Desiccation/Rehydration Cycles in Mosses and Lichens </p><p>T. G. Green, L. G. Sancho and A.  Pintado</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 7 Lichens and Bryophytes – Light Stress and Photoinhibition in Desiccation/ Rehydration Cycles: Mechanisms of Photoprotection            </p><p>U. Heber and U.  Lüttge</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 8 Evolution, Diversity and Habitats of Poikilohydrous Vascular Plants</p><p>St. Porembski</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 9 Ecophysiology of Homoiochlorophyllous and Poikilochlorophyllous Desiccation-Tolerant Plants </p><p>Z. Tuba and H. K.  Lichtenthaler</p><p>                                                                                  </p><p>Chapter 10 Hydraulic Architecture of Vascular Plants</p><p>E. Steudle</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 11 Drought, Desiccation and Oxidative Stress</p><p>R. Scheibe and E. Beck</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 12 Chamaegigas intrepidus DINTER – an Aquatic Poikilohydric Angiosperm that is Perfectly Adapted to its Complex and Extreme Environmental Conditions </p><p>W. Hartung and H. Heilmeier</p><p> </p><p>Part III  The Cell Biological Level</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 13 Molecular Biology and Physiological Genomics of Dehydration Stress</p><p>Ruth Grene, C. Vasquez-Robinet and H. J. Bohnert</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 14 Dehydrins: Molecular Biology, Structure and Function</p><p>S. K. Eriksson and Pia Harryson   </p><p> </p><p>Chapter 15 Understanding Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance Using  Integrated  Functional Genomics Approaches Within a Comparative Evolutionary Framework</p><p>J. C. Cushman and M. J. Oliver</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 16 Resurrection Plants: Physiology and Molecular Biology</p><p>D. Bartels and S. S. Hussain</p><p> </p><p>Part IV Synopsis</p><p> </p><p>Chapter 17 Synopsis</p><p>D. Bartels, E. Beck and U. Lüttge</p><p> </p><p>Subject Index</p>