Coastal oceans are particularly affected by rapid and extreme environmental changes with
dramatic consequences for the entire ecosystem. Seagrasses are key ecosystem …

Metabolomics is a rapidly emerging discipline within functional genomics which is
increasingly being applied to understand biochemical phenotypes across a range of …

While thermal priming and the relative role of epigenetic modifications have been widely
studied in terrestrial plants, their roles remain unexplored in seagrasses so far. Here, we …

The increase in extreme heat events associated to global warming threatens seagrass
ecosystems, likely by affecting key plant physiological processes such as photosynthesis …

Seawater warming and increased incidence of marine heatwaves (MHW) are threatening
the integrity of coastal marine habitats including seagrasses, which are particularly …

Seagrass meadows are disappearing at rates comparable to those reported for mangroves,
coral reefs, and tropical rainforests. One of the main causes of their decline is the so-called …

Seagrasses play a vital role in structuring coastal marine ecosystems, but their distributional
range and genetic diversity have declined rapidly in recent decades. To improve …

Marine heat waves (MHWs), prolonged discrete anomalously warm water events, have been
increasing significantly in duration, intensity and frequency all over the world, and have …

Seagrasses are marine angiosperms that evolved from land plants but returned to the sea
around 140 million years ago during the early evolution of monocotyledonous plants. They …

Seagrasses are unique angiosperms that carry out growth and reproduction submerged in
seawater. They occur in at least three families of the Alismatales. All have chloroplasts …