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Comparative metabolic profiling between desiccation-sensitive and desiccation-tolerant species of Selaginella reveals insights into the resurrection trait.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Dec 2012
Yobi Abou, Wone Bernard W M, Xu Wenxin, Alexander Danny C, Guo Lining, Ryals John A, Oliver Melvin J, Cushman John C
Abstract excerpt
Spike mosses (Selaginellaceae) represent an ancient lineage of vascular plants in which some species have evolved desiccation tolerance (DT). A sister-group contrast to reveal the metabolic basis of DT was conducted between a desiccation-tolerant species, Selaginella lepidophylla, and a desiccation-sensitive species, Selaginella moellendorffii, at 100% relative water content (RWC) and 50% RWC using non-biased,...
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