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Marc Fradera-Soler
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Botanist - desert plants 🌵☀️❄️ @deepsthlmuni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social

📍 Stockholm

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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/...
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...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Reposted by Marc Fradera-Soler
plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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
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).
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
mfraderasoler.bsky.social
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
July 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM