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Review
. 2000;1(2):REVIEWS1010.
doi: 10.1186/gb-2000-1-2-reviews1010. Epub 2000 Aug 2.

What makes desiccation tolerable?

H J Bohnert  1
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Review

What makes desiccation tolerable?

H J Bohnert. Genome Biol. 2000.

Abstract

A comparison of drought tolerance in plants at extreme ends of the evolutionary spectrum is beginning to show the mechanisms involved.

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Figure 1
An illustration of the remarkable ability for extreme vegetative desiccation tolerance in an angiosperm species: the same plant of Craterostigma plantagineum is shown before and after dehydration and again after rehydration. The time scale for the rehydration shown is 12 hours [6].
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