Open AccessHow dried flowers bloom again: Dehydration tolerance in resurrection plants
Author(s) -
Jonathan Phillips,
Dorothea Bartels
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the biochemist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1740-1194
pISSN - 0954-982X
DOI - 10.1042/bio03004014
Subject(s) - desiccation , dehydration , bloom , biology , pollen , botany , horticulture , desiccation tolerance , ecology , biochemistry
The ability to survive desiccation is commonly found in seeds or pollen and is widespread in lower organisms, but it is rare in the vegetative tissues of flowering plants. These ‘resurrection plants’ are socalled because they appear to be dead in the dried state and brought back to life by the addition of water.
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