Maintenance or collapse: responses of extraplastidic membrane lipid composition to desiccation in the resurrection plant Paraisometrum mileense.

Resurrection plants usually grow in specific or extreme habitats and have the capacity to survive almost complete water loss. We characterized the physiological and biochemical responses of Paraisometrum mileense to extreme desiccation and found that it is a resurrection plant. We profiled the chang...

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Hauptverfasser: Aihua Li, Dandan Wang, Buzhu Yu, Xiaomei Yu, Weiqi Li
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Schriftenreihe:PLoS ONE
Online Zugang:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4113352?pdf=render