Frederic Lens

The paper investigates the evolution and reversal of woodiness in flowering plants, finding that drought supports persistence while reduced frost drives gains and increased frost leads to loss.

The paper investigates how intraspecific variation in physiological strategies affects susceptibility to esca in grapevine cultivars, finding that conservative water use strategies reduce susceptibility while metabolic responses vary with disease symptoms.

This paper identifies a two-step mechanism of embolism propagation in angiosperm xylem, involving bubble generation and embolism formation as distinct processes.

The paper investigates factors driving uneven angiosperm diversity in the Canary Islands, finding trait-dependent diversification and spatio-ecological limits are key, not lineage age.

The paper identifies environmental correlates of plant growth forms in the Canary Islands, showing climatic seasonality and topographic complexity drive niche differentiation.

The paper shows that woodiness in angiosperms is more common on continents than islands, driven by drought and frost-free temperatures, with additional factors like precipitation seasonality and elevation.

The paper integrates gene expression analysis with ecophysiological responses to water deficit in tomato leaves, identifying key transcription factors and pathways involved in plant adaptation.

The paper improves bulk segregant analysis by using Gene Ontology to filter flowering time genes in Brassica oleracea, identifying relevant pathways and candidate genes.