Plants, 2022 Many desiccation-tolerant plants are widely distributed and exposed to substantial environmental variation across their native range. These environmental differences generate site-specific selective pressures that could drive natural variation in ...
Rose A. Marks +6 more
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Revista Árvore, 2018 Understanding the loss of desiccation tolerance is of great importance in seed technology for its implications in the development of strategies for seed conservation and seedling production.
Wilson Vicente Souza Pereira +4 more
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An Experimental Evolution Test of the Relationship between Melanism and Desiccation Survival in Insects. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 We used experimental evolution to test the 'melanism-desiccation' hypothesis, which proposes that dark cuticle in several Drosophila species is an adaptation for increased desiccation tolerance.
Subhash Rajpurohit +4 more
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Molecular responses to dehydration and desiccation in desiccation-tolerant angiosperm plants [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Botany, 2018 Due to the ability to tolerate extreme dehydration, desiccation-tolerant plants have been widely investigated to find potential approaches for improving water use efficiency or developing new crop varieties. The studies of desiccation-tolerant plants have identified sugar accumulation, specific protein synthesis, cell structure changes, and increased ...
Qingwei, Zhang, Dorothea, Bartels
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Induction of desiccation tolerance in desiccation sensitive Citrus limon seeds [PDF]
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2019 AbstractMany economically important perennial species bear recalcitrant seeds, including tea, coffee, cocoa, mango, citrus, rubber, oil palm and coconut. Orthodox seeds can be dried almost completely without losing viability, but so‐called recalcitrant seeds have a very limited storage life and die upon drying below a higher critical moisture content ...
Marques, Alexandre +4 more
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Agronomy, 2022 Seed priming protocols implement incomplete imbibition phases, as well as physical, chemical or biological treatments, to activate pre-germinative metabolism and stress response, thus improving germination performances, seedling establishment and stress ...
Andrea Pagano +6 more
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Activation of seed-specific genes in leaves and roots of the desiccation tolerant plant, Xerophyta humilis [PDF]
, 2008 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-169).The ability of tissues to survive almost complete loss of cellular water is a trait found throughout the plant kingdom.
Walford, Sally-Ann
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Characterization of the Xerophyta humilis desiccation induced-1 (Xhdsi-1voc) gene : a member of the Vicinal Oxygen Chelate (VOC) metalloenzyme superfamily upregulated in X. humilis (BAK) DUR and SCHINZ during desiccation [PDF]
, 2008 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-191).Has accompanying material on CD.The resurrection plant, Xerophyta humilis is used as a model system to identify and characterise genes which play an important role in conferring ...
Mulako, Inonge
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Heat and desiccation tolerances of Heterorhabditis bacteriophora strains and relationships between their tolerances and some bioecological characteristics [PDF]
Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2014 Heat tolerances, desiccation tolerances, and effectiveness of 10 Heterorhabditis bacteriophora strains isolated from different climatic regions in Turkey were analyzed in laboratory conditions.
TC Ulu, IA Susurluk
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Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2017 During germination, orthodox seeds become gradually intolerant to desiccation, and for this reason, they are a good model for recalcitrance studies. In the present work, physiological, biochemical, and ultrastructural aspects of the desiccation tolerance
L. E. Castro +2 more
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