500 million years of charted territory: functional ecological traits in bryophytes

DE STANTON, KK COE - Bryophyte Diversity and Evolution, 2021 - mapress.com
Since the late Cambrian era, bryophytes have been sha** terrestrial ecosystems through
unique and diverse suites of anatomical, physiological, and morphological traits. In this …

Unexplored dimensions of variability in vegetative desiccation tolerance

RA Marks, JM Farrant… - American journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Desiccation tolerance has evolved recurrently across diverse land plant lineages as an
adaptation for survival in regions where seasonal rainfall drives periodic drying of vegetative …

Higher order polyploids exhibit enhanced desiccation tolerance in the grass Microchloa caffra

RA Marks, P Delgado, GM Makonya… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Desiccation tolerance evolved recurrently across diverse plant lineages to enable survival in
water-limited conditions. Many resurrection plants are polyploid, and several groups have …

How to dry a bryophyte: a review and experimental test of four methods to induce desiccation tolerance

LR Stark, JL Greenwood, JC Brinda - The Bryologist, 2022 - BioOne
A review of∼ 290 research articles on bryophyte desiccation tolerance (DT) over the last
century reveals four prominent methods that incorporate equilibrium drying. We compare …

Current and historical factors drive variation of reproductive traits in unisexual mosses in Europe: A case study

MT Boquete, Z Varela, JA Fernández… - … of Systematics and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Unisexual bryophytes provide excellent models to study the mechanisms that regulate the
frequency of sexual versus asexual reproduction in plants, and their ecological and …

Expression dynamics of dehydration tolerance in the tropical plant Marchantia inflexa

RA Marks, JJ Smith, R VanBuren… - The Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tolerance to prolonged water deficit occurs along a continuum in plants, with dehydration
tolerance (DhT) and desiccation tolerance (DT) representing some of the most extreme …

[HTML][HTML] Microclimatic conditions and water content fluctuations experienced by epiphytic bryophytes in an Amazonian rain forest

N Löbs, D Walter, CGG Barbosa, S Brill… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
In the Amazonian rain forest, major parts of trees and shrubs are covered by epiphytic
cryptogams of great taxonomic variety, but their relevance in biosphere–atmosphere …

[HTML][HTML] Variability in Functional Traits along an Environmental Gradient in the South African Resurrection Plant Myrothamnus flabellifolia

RA Marks, M Mbobe, M Greyling, J Pretorius… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many desiccation-tolerant plants are widely distributed and exposed to substantial
environmental variation across their native range. These environmental differences …

Sex Differences in Desiccation Tolerance Varies by Colony in the Mesic Liverwort Plagiochila porelloides

JC Silva-e-Costa, AP Luizi-Ponzo, DN McLetchie - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Water scarcity, a common stress factor, negatively impacts plant performance. Strategies to
cope with it, such as desiccation tolerance, are becoming increasingly important to …

Polyploidy enhances desiccation tolerance in the grass Microchloa caffra

RA Marks, P Delgado, GM Makonya, K Cooper… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Desiccation tolerance evolved recurrently across diverse plant lineages to enable survival in
water limited conditions. Many resurrection plants are polyploid and several groups have …