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Marc Fradera-Soler

@mfraderasoler.bsky.social
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Botanist, interested in desert and dryland plants 🌵☀️❄️ Currently on a detour studying Malagasy grass biogeography 🌾🏝 📍 Stockholm @deepsthlmuni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social Ell/He/Him 🏳️‍🌈

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Evolution in arid environments: the role of #betalains, succulence, and medullary bundles Tom Carruthers, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience
Overview of the study system.
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Marc Fradera-Soler @mfraderasoler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What can plants from hot and cold deserts teach us about how plants evolve abiotic stress polyresistance (i.e. resistance to multiple abiotic stressors)? 🌿☀️❄️🧂 Check out our new review, just out now in Biological Reviews: doi.org/10.1002/brv.... @deepsthlmuni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social
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Hot and cold deserts as eco‐evolutionary arenas for understanding plant resistance to multiple abiotic stressors
During their long evolutionary history, land plants have evolved a range of adaptations to different abiotic stressors. These help explain present-day diversity and distribution patterns, as well as ...
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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Our new preprint, led by Joanna Feehan, reveals that extreme physiological leaf cooling is key to survival at the upper thermal limit of eukaryotic life in the Death Valley desert plant Tidestromia oblongifolia. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Extreme cooling enables survival in extreme heat
Complex, multicellular extremophiles face intense challenges in coordinating their cells, tissues, and organs to function in harsh environments. Tidestromia oblongifolia is a desert plant that thrives...
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Passionate about dryland & desert flora? Join the Dryland Floras Mixer at #Botany2026! Whether you attended last year's colloquium or are new to the network, grab a coffee on your way & join us to connect and collaborate. All are welcome! 🌵 August 4 | 9:45 - 10:15 AM 🌵 Sundeck Hospitality Ste 6339
Promotional flyer for the Dryland Floras Botany 2026 Affinity Group Mixer. The flyer features an illustrated desert scene with a tall saguaro cactus, prickly pear, and various desert succulents and plants in shades of green, teal, and orange against a warm beige background. Text reads: "Dryland Floras, Botany 2026 Affinity Group Mixer. This mixer aims to continue the conversations and connections initiated during Botany 2025's Dryland Floras colloquium and satellite meeting. In addition to the participants from last year's sessions, we welcome anyone interested in drylands and deserts and their plants to join us over coffee to discuss ideas, foster collaborations and explore future directions for the network. Tuesday, August 4, 9:45 to 10:15 AM. Grab a coffee and meet us in the Sundeck Hospitality Suite 6339." The Botany 2026 conference logo appears in the lower right corner.
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Max Larter @maxlarter.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Resharing new paper @newphyt.bsky.social 🧪 🌳We found a weak trade-off: drought resistant trees tend to be less frost-hardy & vice versa 🌡️🔥❄️ 🌲💪 Conifers are generally tougher than angiosperms🌺 🧐No "costs" related to fast-slow economics spectrum 🍃🌱 📖more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Weak global trade‐off between frost and drought resistance in trees
Drought and frost stresses play important roles in determining species distributions, especially at range margins. Understanding how stress resistance traits interact to determine vulnerability to c...
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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
CAM #photosynthesis discovered for the first time in a carnivorous plant Scientists from @SNSB and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have found out in experiments with Pinguicula (butterworts). Read more open access in our journal Plant Biology doi.org/10.1111/plb.... #PlantSci
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Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant
Evidence for weak, facultative CAM is reported for the first time in a carnivorous plant, i.e., in Mexican representatives of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae).
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Marc Fradera-Soler @mfraderasoler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Heading to #Botany2025? Curious how plants thrive in extreme deserts and drylands? Don't miss our Dryland Floras colloquium, we've lined up a great session! 🌵☀️ 🗓️ Monday, July 28 | 🕗 8:00am–12:00pm | 📍 Mojave Learning Center
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