Demystifying the convergent ecological specialization of desiccation-tolerant vascular plants for water deficit

• Published in: Annals of botany Vol. 131; no. 3; pp. 521 - 531
• Main Authors: Bondi, Luiz, de Paula, Luiza F A, Rosado, Bruno H P, Porembski, Stefan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 04.04.2023
• Subjects: Desiccation; Original; Phenotype; Plants; Tracheophyta; Water - physiology; stress tolerance; drought; desiccation-tolerant vascular plants; functional traits; Biogeography; resurrection plants; water deficit; desiccation tolerance; resource-use; ecological strategies; species–environment relationship

Desiccation-tolerant vascular plants (DT plants) are able to tolerate the desiccation of their vegetative tissues; as a result, two untested paradigms can be found in the literature, despite contradictions to theoretical premises and empirical findings. First, it is widely accepted that DT plants fo...