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Water and Life

Comparative Analysis of Water Relationships at the Organismic, Cellular, and Molecular Levels

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. George Nicholls Somero

    1. Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

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  2. Charles Barry Osmond

    1. Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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  3. Carla Liana Bolis

    1. Laboratory of Comparative Biology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  5. Freezing Stress

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      Pages 259-259
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Presenting an analysis of the water relationships of the major groups of organisms: fungi, plants and animals, the text examines water stress at all levels of biological organization. Topics covered include: 1) organic osmotic agents: their distributions, modes of action, and mechanisms of regulation; 2) desiccation stress; mechanisms for preserving cellu lar integrity under conditions of low cellular water activity; 3) water stress and water compartmentation in plants; and 4) freezing stress: the prevention and regulation of ice formation in biological fluids, and mechanisms for overcoming the damaging effects of low temperatures on cellular integrity. Common adaptive strategies in diverse organisms are emphasized, as well as the fundamental physical-chemical properties of aqueous solutions that establish the nature of the interactions among water, low molecular weight solutes and macromolecules.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

    George Nicholls Somero

  • Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Charles Barry Osmond

  • Laboratory of Comparative Biology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Carla Liana Bolis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Water and Life

  • Book Subtitle: Comparative Analysis of Water Relationships at the Organismic, Cellular, and Molecular Levels

  • Editors: George Nicholls Somero, Charles Barry Osmond, Carla Liana Bolis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76682-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-76684-8Published: 23 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-76682-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 371

  • Topics: Cell Biology, Plant Sciences, Animal Physiology, Biochemistry, general, Agriculture, Forestry

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