1. Editorial – The Cactus, the Sunflower, and the Moss

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 4

2. The discovery, scope, and puzzle of desiccation tolerance in plants

   • Peter Alpert

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 17

3. Granitic and gneissic outcrops (inselbergs) as centers of diversity for desiccation-tolerant vascular plants

   • Stefan Porembski
   • Wilhelm Barthlott

   Legacy Pages: 19 - 28

4. A comparison of mechanisms of desiccation tolerance among three angiosperm resurrection plant species

   • Jill M. Farrant

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 39

5. The bryophyte paradox: tolerance of desiccation, evasion of drought

   • Michael C.F. Proctor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 49

6. Early morning photosynthesis of the moss Tortula ruralis following summer dew fall in a Hungarian temperate dry sandy grassland

   • Zsolt Csintalan
   • Zoltán Takács
   • Zoltán Tuba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 54

7. Diurnal variation in photochemical dynamics and surface reflectance of the desiccation-tolerant moss, Tortula ruralis

   • E.P. Hamerlynck
   • Z. Tuba
   • D. Goodin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 63

8. ABA treatment increases both the desiccation tolerance of photosynthesis, and nonphotochemical quenching in the moss Atrichum undulatum

   • Richard P. Beckett
   • Zsolt Csintalan
   • Zoltán Tuba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 65 - 71

9. Bryophytes as experimental models for the study of environmental stress tolerance: Tortula ruralis and desiccation-tolerance in mosses

   • Melvin J. Oliver
   • Jeff Velten
   • Andrew J. Wood

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 84

10. The evolution of vegetative desiccation tolerance in land plants

    • Melvin J. Oliver
    • Zoltán Tuba
    • Brent D. Mishler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 100