Our new preprint, led by Joanna Feehan, reveals that extreme physiological leaf cooling is key to survival at the upper thermal limit of eukaryotic life in the Death Valley desert plant Tidestromia oblongifolia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Extreme cooling enables survival in extreme heat

Complex, multicellular extremophiles face intense challenges in coordinating their cells, tissues, and organs to function in harsh environments. Tidestromia oblongifolia is a desert plant that thrives...

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Resharing new paper @newphyt.bsky.social 🧪 🌳We found a weak trade-off: drought resistant trees tend to be less frost-hardy & vice versa 🌡️🔥❄️ 🌲💪 Conifers are generally tougher than angiosperms🌺 🧐No "costs" related to fast-slow economics spectrum 🍃🌱 📖more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Weak global trade‐off between frost and drought resistance in trees

Drought and frost stresses play important roles in determining species distributions, especially at range margins. Understanding how stress resistance traits interact to determine vulnerability to c...

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CAM #photosynthesis discovered for the first time in a carnivorous plant Scientists from @SNSB and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have found out in experiments with Pinguicula (butterworts). Read more open access in our journal Plant Biology doi.org/10.1111/plb.... #PlantSci

Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant

Evidence for weak, facultative CAM is reported for the first time in a carnivorous plant, i.e., in Mexican representatives of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae).

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