resurrection plant in English
noun
1
any of a number of plants that are able to survive drought, typically folding up when dry and unfolding when moistened, in particular.
The resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum is able to survive almost complete tissue dehydration when water is withheld from it, and then can rehydrate rapidly on rewatering.
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1. In the study that I'm going to talk to you about, my collaborators used a drought-induced promoter, which we discovered in a resurrection plant.