From our FY26 New Investigator call: @roseamarks.bsky.social will separate genome copies in this polyploid grass to uncover links to desiccation tolerance.@ibioillinois.bsky.social Full portfolio: jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/jgi-announces-2026-new-investigator-portfolio

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... new paper on the evolution of desiccation tolerance in land plants. it was a fun project with two of my fav young scientists @bryophyter.bsky.social @youngeukaryote.bsky.social

Shaped by context: Evolutionary trajectories of desiccation tolerance in land plants

Desiccation tolerance (DT), the ability to survive near-complete cellular dehydration, is widespread in diaspores but rare in the vegetative tissues of land plants. The patchy and punctuated phylogen...

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The January issue of New Phytologist is online now, featuring on the cover @roseamarks.bsky.social’s article on the physiology and genomics of the resurrection plant, Myrothanus flabellifolia. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... (I’m posting here for Dr. Marks, who is currently doing field work off the grid)

The architecture of resilience: a genome assembly of Myrothamnus flabellifolia sheds light on desiccation tolerance and sex determination

Myrothamnus flabellifolia is a dioecious resurrection plant endemic to southern Africa that has become an important model for understanding desiccation tolerance. Despite its ecological and medicina...

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new paper! this one holds a special place in my heart--it's the project that brought me to South Africa--just a short 6 years later, we have a product Myrothamnus is a resurrection plant with deep cultural roots. it's been a privilege to study this iconic species that survives with so little.

Join us for the first inaugural WALII Virtual Symposium on Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025! Abstract submissions for a contributed talk are NOW OPEN! Selected speakers will be chosen in Oct. & will present 10-12 min. talks followed by 3-5 min. of Q&A. Visit: walii.science/virtual-symp...

Calling #mycologists and anyone working on plant fungal interactions, please help spread the word - opportunity to come work with these wonderful people @minyaaa.bsky.social @roseamarks.bsky.social @dallingjim.bsky.social

new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... we camped in the bush, got caught in a storm, and watched Myrothamnus flabellifolia spring back to life.... now we’ve got a genome assembly and a field-based transcriptomic timecourse to tell its story

The architecture of resilience: a genome assembly of Myrothamnus flabellifolia sheds light on desiccation tolerance and sex determination

Myrothamnus flabellifolia is a dioecious resurrection plant endemic to southern Africa that has become an important model for desiccation tolerance. Here, we present a chromosome-level, haplotype-reso...

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Plant Science Research Weekly -- The art of drying gracefully: The future for desiccation research (Nature Communications) @roseamarks.bsky.social @rheelab.bsky.social (Summary by Stephanie Temnyk) buff.ly/D6x3PIA #PlantaePSRW

Perspective. The art of drying gracefully: The future for desiccation research | Plantae

In their perspective article, “Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications,” Marks et al. outline the current state and future…

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one of the most rewarding projects i’ve ever been part of. huge thx to the team of amazing folks who came together to make this happen ✨

WALIIAnhydro@waliianhydro.bsky.social · last yr.

WALII member, @roseamarks.bsky.social, brought together a team of 39 researchers across the globe to outline a comprehensive roadmap for advancing research on desiccation tolerance in a newly published paper with @natcomms.nature.com Read about it here! plantresilience.msu.edu/pri-news/202...

This was an incredible, international, tree-of-life spanning collaborative effort led by @roseamarks.bsky.social. I had fun and it was great model for how we can start to reach across disciplinary barriers and silos. @naturecomms.bsky.social #interdisciplinary

Department of Biology | San Francisco State University@sfstatebio.bsky.social · last yr.

Life without water? A few organisms manage it. A new paper by Assistant Professor Jenna Ekwealor and co-authors in Nature Communications explores desiccation tolerance. Read more here! 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biology #desiccation #biotech #conservation

our perspective on desiccation tolerance research is out in @naturecomms.bsky.social. with nearly forty authors from around the world spanning diverse career stages and disciplines, this work represents a shared vision for the field. let us know what you think! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications - Nature Communications

Desiccation tolerance is an extreme adaptation to water limitation. Here the authors envisage a roadmap to advance desiccation tolerance research, highlight key knowledge gaps, call for standardizatio...

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