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What is an extremophyte?

Extremophytes, or eXtreme plants, or plant extremophiles, are plants evolutionarily adapted to thrive in environments characterized by a high degree of abiotic stress. The list of [...]

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Cutting edge: exploring evolutionary convergence at the gene level

Mangroves are trees that grow in the ocean, but that doesn’t mean they all evolved from a single mangrove predecessor. Instead, they are a diverse [...]

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Schrenkiella parvula

Schrenkiella parvula - a 7 chromosome member of the Brassicaceae - has an eXtreme ability, in the natural world, to function in the hypersaline conditions surrounding Lake Tuz in central Anatolia,...

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Rhizophora spp.

The genus Rhizophora contains more species of mangrove than any other. Their tangled prop root systems – illustrated in the header photo – are the [...]

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Sporobolus stapfianus

Sporobolus stapfianus is a member of one of the largest and most important plant families, the Poaceae, but, alas, as Gaff et al. have put it, it is "obscure". In this case, the desiccation tolerance...

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