Evolutionary BiologyEvolutionPeer-reviewed
Drought tolerance as an evolutionary precursor to frost and winter tolerance in grasses
Laura Schat, Marian Schubert, Siri Fjellheim, Aelys M. Humphreys
The paper investigates whether drought tolerance preceded frost and winter tolerance in grasses, finding mixed evolutionary trajectories and supporting ancestral drought tolerance as a facilitator for cold biome transitions in some clades.
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