Resurrection plant

Desiccation tolerance and injury avoidance The remarkable tolerance to prolonged anhydrobiosis in resurrection plants suggests they are able to maintain essential structure and physiological integrity in the dry state or are able to repair dehydration-induced damage rapidly following rehydration. 

Among resurrection plants two seemingly very different kinds of response occur at the ultrastructural level. In many desiccation tolerant seeds, pollens, mosses and vascular plants, dehydration brings about rather... 

Gaff, D.F. Latz, P. (1978). The occurrence of resurrection plants in the Australian flora. Australian Journal of Botany, 26, 483-92. 

Tymms, M.J. Gaff, D.F. (1979). Proline accumulation during water stress in resurrection plants. Journal of Experimental Botany, 30, 165-8. 

Earrant, J.M., A comparison of mechanisms of desiccation tolerance among three angiosperm resurrection plant species. Plant Ecol, 151, 29, 2000. 

Earrant, J.M. et al.. An investigation into the role of light during desiccation of three angiosperm resurrection plants. Plant Cell Environ, 26, 1275, 2003. 

Sherwin, H.W. and Farrant, J.M., Protection mechanisms against excess light in the resurrection plants Craterostigma wilmsii and Xerophyta viscose. Plant Growth Regul, 24, 203, 1998. 

Resurrection plant 168 Retention signal 521 Retinoblastoma protein (Rb) 574 Retinol-binding protein 58 Retrieval signal KDEL 521 Retroviruses 248... 

A "resurrection plant" that normally contains an unusual 2-octulose converts this sugar almost entirely into sucrose when desiccated. This is one of a small group of plants that are able to withstand severe desiccation but can, within a few hours, reverse the changes when rehydrated j... 

Bartels, D., Schneider, K., Terstappen, G., Piatkowski, D. Salamini, F. (1990). Molecular cloning of abscisic acid-modulated genes which are induced during desiccation of the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum. Planta 181, 27-34. 

Microbes such as bacteria and yeasts readily produce trehalose but only a few plants make it, yet for those which do it is literally a life-saver because it enables them to survive even the most prolonged drought. When it rains they miraculously come back to life. These so-called resurrection plants use this carbohydrate to preserve essential... 

Frank, W., Munnik, T., Kerkmann, K., Salamini, F. and Bartels, D., 2000, Water deficit triggers phospholipase D activity in the resurrection plant Craterostigmaplantagineum. Plant Cell 12 111-123. 

Molecular cloning, Bacterial overexpression and characterization of L-myo-inositol 1 Phosphate Synthase from a monocotyledonous Resurrection Plant, Xerophyta viscosa Baker Manoj Majee, Barunava Patra, Sagadevan G., Mundree and Arun Lahiri Majumder. J. Plant Biochemistry Biotechnology, vol-14, 71-75, July 2005. 

Occurrence. D-glycero-D-ido-2-Octulose (66) constitutes the dominant carbohydrate in the fully hydrated leaves of the resurrection plant Craterostigma plan-tagineum, from where it has been extracted.286 The structure was confirmed by NMR analysis of the tri-O-isopropylidene derivative.287 Resurrection plants have the unique ability to be able to survive up to almost complete dehydration and then be rehydrated in a biologically functional state.288 Upon dehydration there is a conversion of 2-octulose into sucrose. The 2-octulose 66 appears to be used as a storage carbohydrate in the leaves, and is mobilized at night.289... 

G. Bianchi, A. Gamba, C. Murelli, F. Salamini, and D. Bartels, Novel carbohydrate metabolism in the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum, The Plant Journal, 1 (1991) 335-339. 

O. W. Howarth, N. Pozzi, G. Vlahov, and D. Bartels, NMR structural analysis of a tri-O-isopropylidene derivative of D-g/ycero-D-ido-2-octulose, the major sugar found in the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum, Carbohydr. Res., 289 (1996) 137-142. 

M. Norwood, M. R. Truesdale, A. Richter, and P. Scott, Photosynthetic carbohydrate metabolism in the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum, J. Exp. Botany, 51 (1995) 159-165. 

Agarwal, P.K., P. Agarwal, M.K. Reddy, and S.K. Sopory. 2006. Role of DREB transcription factors in abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in plants. Plant Cell Rep. 25 1263-1274. Alamillo, J., C. Almoguera, D. Bartels, and J. Jordano. 1995. Constitutive expression of small heat shock proteins in vegetative tissues of the resurrection plant Craterostigma plan-tagineum. Plant Mol. Biol. 29 1093-1099. 

Major sugar of the leaves of the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantinagineum. 

Nicoletti, M., Maggi, F., Papa, F., Vittori, S., Quassinti, L., Bramucci, M. et al. (2012). In vitro biological activities of the essential oil from the resurrection plant Myrozhamnus moschatus (Baillon) Niedenzu endemic in Madagaskar. 26(24), 2291-2300. 

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