Desiccation sensitive seeds: understanding their evolution, genetics and physiology

Abstract

Adaptations of higher plant cell walls to water loss: drought vs desiccation. Physiol Plant, 134, 237-245.. The lack of available water suspends virtually every metabolic activity in the cells, such as respiration and transcription. Thus, it is also different from dormancy or lethargy that reduces in a wet environment the progress of development or of metabolic activity. Beardmore, T. and Whittle, C.-A. (2005) Induction of tolerance to desiccation and cryopreservation in silver maple (Acer saccharinum) embryonic axes. Tree physiology, 25(8), 965-972.