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Demystifying the convergent ecological specialization of desiccation-tolerant vascular plants for water deficit.
Annals of botany - 4 Apr 2023
Bondi Luiz, de Paula Luiza F A, Rosado Bruno H P, Porembski Stefan
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Desiccation-tolerant vascular plants (DT plants) are able to tolerate the desiccation of their vegetative tissues; as a result, two untested paradigms can be found in the literature, despite contradictions to theoretical premises and empirical findings. First, it is widely accepted that DT plants form a convergent group of specialist plants to water deficit conditions. A derived paradigm is...
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