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