Gesneriads, a Source of Resurrection and Double-Tolerant Species: Proposal of New Desiccation- and Freezing-Tolerant Plants and Their Physiological Adaptations
Gesneriaceae is a pantropical family of plants that, thanks to their lithophytic and epiphytic growth forms, have developed different strategies for overcoming water scarcity. Desiccation tolerance or “resurrection” ability is one of them: a rare phenomenon among angiosperms that involves surviving...
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MDPI AG
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Biology |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/12/1/107 |