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Dehydration is one of the most common environmental stresses to which plants are exposed, and in many regions it is the bottleneck of agricultural development (McKersie and Leshem 1994). Plant growth is seriously affected under water-limiting conditions: while numerous organisms such as yeast cells, bacterial and fungal spores, nematodes, angiospermous seeds, and pollen are able to survive extreme dehydration, tolerance to drought is rare in vegetative parts of plants (Leopold et al. 1992). The ability of plants to survive periods of severe water stress uninjured is a necessary component of productivity in areas with limited water supply. Despite the agronomic impact of plant water stress, very few plants have been subjected to biochemical and molecular studies to analyze the cellular events that are involved in tolerance to extreme lack of water (for a review see Ingram and Bartels 1996).
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Furini, A., Salamini, F., Bartels, D. (2001). Genetic Transformation of Craterostigma plantagineum . In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Transgenic Crops III. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10603-7_22
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