ArticleNature plants2024
Convergent evolution of desiccation tolerance in grasses.
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- The architecture of resilience: a genome assembly of Myrothamnus flabellifolia sheds light on desiccation tolerance and sex determination.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Exploring the mechanisms of desert plant adaptation to arid climates: a multi-omics analysis of dehydration and rehydration responses in Syntrichia caninervis.Stress biology · 2025Article
- Comparative Transcriptome Reveals Conserved Gene Expression in Reproductive Organs in Solanaceae.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Evolution of sexual systems and regressive evolution in Riccia.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- The future of genome editing in plants.Nature plants · 2025Review
- Metabolite Profiling of the Resurrection GrassPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Cell Wall Profiling of the Resurrection PlantsPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Higher order polyploids exhibit enhanced desiccation tolerance in the grass Microchloa caffra.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Article
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Abstract
Desiccation tolerance has evolved repeatedly in plants as an adaptation to survive extreme environments. Plants use similar biophysical and cellular mechanisms to survive life without water, but convergence at the molecular, gene and regulatory levels remains to be tested. Here we explore the evolutionary mechanisms underlying the recurrent evolution of desiccation tolerance across grasses. We observed substantial convergence in gene duplication and expression patterns associated with desiccation. Syntenic genes of shared origin are activated across species, indicative of parallel evolution. In other cases, similar metabolic pathways are induced but using different gene sets, pointing towards phenotypic convergence. Species-specific mechanisms supplement these shared core mechanisms, underlining the complexity and diversity of evolutionary adaptations to drought. Our findings provide insight into the evolutionary processes driving desiccation tolerance and highlight the roles of parallel and convergent evolution in response to environmental challenges.
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