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Introduction to desiccation biology: from old borders to new frontiers.
Article in Planta, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.
- Desiccation tolerance mechanisms in the green lineage and beyond.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Surviving desiccation: key factors underlying tolerance in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.Protoplasma · 2025Review
- Biomolecular condensates-Prerequisites for anhydrobiosis?Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025Review
- Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Possible roles of CAHS proteins from Tardigrade in osmotic stress tolerance in mammalian cells.Cell structure and function · 2024Article
- The microbiome of the lichen Lobaria pulmonaria varies according to climate on a subcontinental scale.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
- Protecting Proteins from Desiccation Stress Using Molecular Glasses and Gels.Chemical reviews · 2024Review
- Seed longevity and genome damage.Bioscience reports · 2024Review
- Eggs of the mosquito Aedes aegypti survive desiccation by rewiring their polyamine and lipid metabolism.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- The Arabidopsis F-box protein SKP1-INTERACTING PARTNER 31 modulates seed maturation and seed vigor by targeting JASMONATE ZIM DOMAIN proteins independently of jasmonic acid-isoleucine.The Plant cell · 2023Article
- When Phased without Water: Biophysics of Cellular Desiccation, from Biomolecules to Condensates.Chemical reviews · 2023Review
- Viability markers for determination of desiccation tolerance and critical stages during dehydration in Selaginella species.Journal of experimental botany · 2022Article
- Introduction to Bacterial Anhydrobiosis: A General Perspective and the Mechanisms of Desiccation-Associated Damage.Microorganisms · 2022Review
- Production of reactive oxygen species and involvement of bioprotectants during anhydrobiosis in the tardigrade Paramacrobiotus spatialis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Desiccation as a Post-maturation Treatment Helps Complete Maturation of Norway Spruce Somatic Embryos: Carbohydrates, Phytohormones and Proteomic Status.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- The Orthodox Dry Seeds Are Alive: A Clear Example of Desiccation Tolerance.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Pseudocrossidium replicatum (Taylor) R.H. Zander is a fully desiccation-tolerant moss that expresses an inducible molecular mechanism in response to severe abiotic stress.Plant molecular biology · 2021Article
- Modeling in yeast how rDNA introns slow growth and increase desiccation tolerance in lichens.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Article
- A prion-like protein regulator of seed germination undergoes hydration-dependent phase separation.Cell · 2021Article
- Beyond mitochondria: Alternative energy-producing pathways from all strata of life.Metabolism: clinical and experimental · 2021Review
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conclusionA special issue reviews the recent progress made in our understanding of desiccation tolerance across various plant and animal kingdoms. It has been known for a long time that seeds can survive near absolute protoplasmic dehydration through air drying and complete germination upon rehydration because of their desiccation tolerance. This property is present both in prokaryotes and eukaryotes across all life kingdoms. These dry organisms suspend their metabolism when dry, are extremely tolerant to acute environmental stresses and are relatively stable during long periods of desiccation. Studies aiming at understanding the mechanisms of survival in the dry state have emerged during the past 40 years, moving from in vitro to genomic models and comparative genomics, and from a view that tolerance is an all-or-nothing phenomenon to a quantitative trait. With the prospect of global climate change, understanding the mechanisms of desiccation tolerance appears to be a promising avenue as a prelude to engineering crops for improved drought tolerance. Understanding desiccation is also useful for seed banks that rely on dehydration tolerance to preserve plant genetic resources in the form of these propagules. Articles in this special issue explore the recent progress in our understanding of desiccation tolerance, including the evolutionary mechanisms that have been adopted across various plant (algae, lichens, seeds, resurrection plants) and animal model systems (Caenorhabditis elegans, brine shrimp). We propose that the term desiccation biology defines the discipline dedicated to understand the desiccation tolerance in living organisms as well as the limits and time constraints thereof.
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