Desiccation tolerance mechanisms in the green lineage and beyond
Jenny Schuster, Robert VanBuren · 2026
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Jenny Schuster and Robert VanBuren synthesize how plants survive near-total drying in a 2026 review of desiccation tolerance. A small set of plants can lose almost all cellular water and revive on rewetting. That trick likely helped early land plants and still serves in harsh, dry habitats. A decade of genome-scale, comparative, and functional work is weighed for shared mechanisms across the green lineage and beyond. The review gives special weight to the strain drying puts on sunlit, photosynthetic tissue.
Tolerance appears to be rebuilt from ancient stress toolkits rather than invented fresh. Unrelated lineages converge on similar protection for cells and light-harvesting gear during drying and recovery in the synthesis offered. The authors treat tolerance as a whole-system trait and weigh uses in crops, medicine, and biotechnology.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jenny Schuster, Robert VanBuren |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 66062 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |