In the WALII Symposium I provided insights of how our recent research on #seedmaturation #phylotranscriptomics is helping us to explore the link between seed #development & plasticity, including regulation and #evolution of #desiccationtolerance.
The recording link is below!👇🏾🌱🧐
#plantscifyi

Thanks Femke! Happy that our manuscript has sparked interesting thoughts! Our 'out of the seed hypothesis' links seed development & #plasticity, and we're now exploring how these young genes are involved in survival traits such as #desiccationtolerance evolution! More interesting research soon!

Image showing two graphs (a and b). The graphs show the relationship between the intracellular water content (expressed in percentage of volume) and the water potential (Ψ) in lobes of Peltigera britannica with the green algae (P_coccomyxa, a) and with the cyanobacterium (P_nostoc, b) as the main photobiont, as well as in cultured colonies of Coccomyxa sp. (a) and Nostoc sp. (b). Taken from figure 2 of paper by Petruzzellis et al. Plant and Cell Physiology, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcae143

Decoupling to survive…💦

Petruzzellis et al. provide evidence for decoupled water potential between myco- and photobionts as a key adaptation allowing lichens to tolerate desiccation by prolonging #photosynthesis 🔆

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#plantscience #desiccationtolerance #abioticstress

Resurrection plants revisited: bridging the gap between bryophytes and angiosperms to decode desiccation tolerance <em>New Phytologist</em> is an international journal owned by the New Phytologist Foundation publishing original research in plant science and its applications.

📜 Resurrection plants revisited: bridging the gap between bryophytes and angiosperms to decode desiccation tolerance

🧑‍🔬 Rose A. Marks

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#️⃣ #PlantScience #DesiccationTolerance #PlantStress #AbioticStress #PlantEvoDevo