As global temperatures rise, understanding the innovations that enable heat tolerance is becoming essential for sustainable agriculture.
The Plant Heat-Resilience Research Hub serves to highlight ongoing research into how plants acclimate and thrive under extreme heat as well as act as an evolving resource for those interested in the biology of plant resilience under extreme environmental conditions.
Our work begins with Tidestromia oblongifolia, a thermophilic species native to Death Valley that demonstrates exceptional heat resilience. We aim to bring together discoveries from physiology, genomics, anatomy, biochemistry, and systems biology to understand thermal adaptation in plants.
Explore the sections below to learn more about the research and people behind these discoveries, the projects currently underway, and the resources available to support continued work on plant thermal adaptation.
Recent News
November 7th, 2025 – Congratulations to PHRRH Members Karine Prado, Bo Xue, Matt Stata, Charles Hawkins, Jennifer Johnson, Shifeng Cheng, Hongbing Liu, and their colleagues on the publication of their manuscript “Photosynthetic acclimation is a key contributor to exponential growth of a desert plant in Death Valley summer” in Current Biology! Read the press release for the manuscript here, and additional writing about the manuscript here and here.