Abstract
Resurrection plants are the vital assets of nature that have amazing mechanism to restrict the negative impacts of drought or desiccation stress by diminishing cell damage. These surprising plants are in minority on this planet but have the potential to serve as a powerful resource for developing new strategies for major crop plants that are unable to adapt well to the arid climate. In this review, an attempt is made to highlight the potential aspects of these resurrection plants especially the genetic engineering facet which has been done to develop drought tolerance in economically important plants.
Highlights
Stress is an “undeniable pressure of some antagonistic force”, that leads to the alteration or inhibition in the typical functioning of the system
Desiccation tolerance is the property of plants to survive in less or almost nil cellular water level and to revive all lost protoplasmic water upon rehydration [2]
Resurrection plants are those plants which have the ability to produce pollen or seeds which are tolerant to desiccation and possess vegetative tissues that can tolerate desiccation
Summary
Stress is an “undeniable pressure of some antagonistic force”, that leads to the alteration or inhibition in the typical functioning of the system. Drought tolerance is the level at which there is an adaptation in the arid and water deficit conditions This mechanism is attributed by osmotic adjustment which involves inorganic ions, organic acids and carbohydrates and the alteration in the elasticity of cells and tissues. Desiccation tolerance is the property of plants to survive in less or almost nil cellular water level and to revive all lost protoplasmic water upon rehydration [2]. Resurrection plants are those plants which have the ability to produce pollen or seeds which are tolerant to desiccation and possess vegetative tissues that can tolerate desiccation.
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