Abstract Anhydrobiosis ('life without water') is the remarkable ability of certain organisms to
survive almost total dehydration. It requires a coordinated series of events during …

Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) are continuously produced during seed development, from
embryogenesis to germination, but also during seed storage. ROS play a dual role in seed …

Active oxygen species (AOS) are involved in various aspects of seed physiology. Their
generation, which occurs during seed desiccation, germination and ageing, may lead to …

A number of proteins have been identified that typically accumulate in plants in response to
any environmental stimulus that has a dehydrative component or is temporally associated …

This publication provides an approach by which conservationists can determine whether or
not long-term seed storage is feasible for a particular species, ie whether or not that species …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generated inevitably in the redox reactions of plants,
including respiration and photosynthesis. In earlier studies, ROS were considered as toxic …

This work is part of a research program aiming at identifying and studying genes involved in
Arabidopsis thaliana seed maturation. We focused here on the Wassilewskija ecotype seed …

A suite of mechanisms or processes that together have been implicated in the acquisition
and maintenance of desiccation tolerance in orthodox seeds is discussed in the context of …

David Keilin (Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B, 150, 1959, 149–191) coined the term
'cryptobiosis'(hidden life) and defined it as 'the state of an organism when it shows no visible …

Summary 1 The ability of seeds to survive desiccation is an important functional trait and is
an integral part of plant regeneration ecology. Despite this, the topic has received relatively …