Resurrection plants can survive extreme drying during periods of prolonged drought stress, maintaining a quiescent state for months to years until the return of water. Analysis of the genome and transcriptome of the resurrection plant Xerophyta viscosa links the evolution of desiccation tolerance to rewired pre-existing seed pathways.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Relevant articles
Open Access articles citing this article.
Access options
Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals
Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription
$29.99 / 30 days
cancel any time
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 digital issues and online access to articles
$119.00 per year
only $9.92 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on SpringerLink
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
Oliver, M. J., Tuba, Z. & Mishler, B. D. Plant Ecol. 151, 85–100 (2000).
Lü ttge, U., Beck, E. & Bartels, D. Plant Desiccation Tolerance Vol. 215 (Springer, 2011).
Costa, M.-C. D. et al. Nat. Plants 3, 17038 (2017).
Farrant, J. M. et al. Planta 242, 407–426 (2015).
Gusev, O. et al. Nat. Commun. 5, 4784 (2014).
VanBuren, R. et al. Nature 527, 508–511 (2015).
Xiao, L. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 112, 5833–5837 (2015).
Wang, W., Vinocur, B., Shoseyov, O. & Altman, A. Trends Plant Sci. 9, 244–252 (2004).
Xu, D. et al. Plant Physiol. 110, 249–257 (1996).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Ethics declarations
Competing interests
The author declares no competing financial interests.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
VanBuren, R. Desiccation tolerance: Seedy origins of resurrection. Nature Plants 3, 17046 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2017.46
Published:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2017.46
