With global climate change, water scarcity threatens whole agro/ecosystems. The desert moss
Syntrichia caninervis, an extremophile, offers novel insights into surviving desiccation and …

PREMISE Desiccation tolerance (DT) is a widespread phenomenon among land plants,
and variable ecological strategies for DT are likely to exist. Using Syntrichia caninervis, a …

PREMISE OF RESEARCH: Natural populations of many mosses appear highly female‐biased
based on the presence of reproductive structures. This bias could be caused by …

Climate change is expanding drylands even as land use practices degrade them. Representing
∼40% of Earth’s terrestrial surface, drylands rely on biological soil crusts (biocrusts) for …

Several species of dryland cyanobacteria are known to occur as hypoliths under semi-translucent
rocks. In the Mojave Desert, these organisms find refuge from intense solar radiation …

The Calymperaceae are a large pantropical moss clade. This paper reports the results of a
phylogenetic analysis of the Calymperaceae, with an emphasis on the relationships of the …

Here I present a cladistically based monograph of a group of closely related mosses known
as the Syrrhopodon involutus complex. Monographs remain a critical and indispensable …

Premise of research. If sexual reproduction is necessary for maintaining genotypic diversity,
then plant populations lacking sex might be expected to exhibit less genotypic diversity than …

Desiccation tolerance is a complex trait that is broadly but infrequently present throughout
the evolutionary tree of life. Desiccation tolerance has played a significant role in land plant …

Three genes encoding dehydrins have been previously described from peach. In the course
of searching the peach genome, three additional members of this stress-associated family …