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Annals of Botany 91: 105, 2003
© 2003 Annals of Botany Company

Black, M. and Pritchard, H.W. (eds). Desiccation and survival in plants. Drying without dying

J. Derek Bewley

Desiccation and survival in plants. Drying without dying.
Black M, Pritchard HW, eds. 2002.
Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing.
£75 (hardback). 412 pp.

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This excellent volume provides a very readable and comprehensive coverage of desiccation tolerance in plants. The opening chapter, from which the subtitle ‘Drying without dying’ is drawn, gives a splendid overview of what desiccation tolerance is and how plants accommodate this potentially lethal stress. It includes a history of research into plant desiccation and the development of ideas, its occurrence within the plant kingdom and its ecological significance. The subsequent chapters build masterfully upon this introduction, in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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