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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.
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- UA PLANTA QUE SUPÒRTA DINC A 48,8 ºC (January 2026)
- Scientists found the most heat-tolerant plant on Earth hiding in plain sight (January 2026)
- Пекельна рослина з Долини Смерті дарує надію світу, що розігрівається (December 2025)
- The ‘Hell-Plant’ of Death Valley offers hope to a hotter world (December 2025)
- Plants In The Hottest Place on Earth Actually Grow Faster At Higher Temperatures? A Discussion About Honeysweet with Karine Prado (December 2025)
- Planta ‘Termorresistente’ del Valle de la Muerte: ¿Clave contra el Cambio Climático? (December 2025)
- Como viver no Vale da Morte (December 2025)
- Loài cây sống sót qua sa mạc, sinh trưởng nhanh hơn khi trời nóng (November 2025)
- Diese Wüstenpflanze könnte die Landwirtschaft revolutionieren (November 2025)
- Адское растение из Долины Смерти дарит надежду разогревающемуся миру (November 2025)
- This Shrub Thrives in Death Valley’s Scorching Temperatures. Where Do Its Heat-Tolerant Superpowers Come From? (November 2025)
- L’Œil de GEO: cette plante de la Vallée de la Mort pousse encore plus vite quand la température grimpe (November 2025)
- Scientists make groundbreaking find in California’s Death Valley National Park (November 2025)
- 45℃에도 잘 자라는 데스밸리 식물의 내열성 비밀 찾았다 (November 2025)
- Death Valley shrub rearranges its insides to thrive in one of the hottest places on Earth (November 2025)
- “Tidestromia oblongifolia” La planta del desierto que inspira la agricultura climáticamente resiliente en Latinoamérica (November 2025)
- Desert plant could hold key to heat-resistant crops (November 2025)
- Estados Unidos: descubren una planta en el Valle de la Muerte capaz de sobrevivir a más de 50 grados (November 2025)
- La plante qui adore les chaleurs extrêmes (November 2025)
- Death Valley shrub survives extreme heat with some unique tricks (November 2025)
- Planta do deserto revela pistas para agricultura em um planeta mais quente (November 2025)
- This plant thrives in Death Valley: its secret could save us (November 2025)
- La planta del Valle de la Muerte que podría salvar nuestras cosechas (November 2025)
- 49°C sıcaklıkta bile yaşayan bu bitki tarımda her şeyi değiştirebilir (November 2025)
- A special shape shift helps a shrub thrive in blistering heat (November 2025)
- Phát hiện bí mật của loài cây chịu nóng đến 49°C (November 2025)
- Tidestromia oblongifolia, consejos para cultivar alimentos en condiciones de calor extremo (November 2025)
- Scientists Discover Heat-Tolerant Plant in Death Valley That Could Transform Agriculture (November 2025)
- Esta planta que prospera en el Valle de la Muerte no solo es inmune al calor extremo (November 2025)
- Mengungkap rahasia tanaman yang mampu bertahan pada suhu hingga 49°C (November 2025)
- Como planta que prospera no Vale da Morte pode ajudar a agricultura contra aquecimento global (November 2025)
- Seung Yon ‘Sue’ Rhee, profesora de Biología Vegetal: ‘Esta es la planta documentada que mejor aguanta el calor extremo’ (November 2025)
- Planta do Vale da Morte revela plano para culturas resistentes ao calor (November 2025)
- Рослина з Долини Смерті може врятувати світ від голоду (November 2025)
- Descubren en EE. UU. una planta capaz de vivir a más de 50 °C: la “superresistente” del Valle de la Muerte (November 2025)
- Científicos asombrados al descubrir que una planta “se transforma por dentro” para sobrevivir al calor del Valle de la Muerte (November 2025)
- Death Valley Plant’s Blueprint for Heat-Resilient Crops (November 2025)
- Descubren la súper planta más resistente al calor y que podría revolucionar la agricultura (November 2025)
- 49°C sıcaklıkta hızla büyüyen bitki tarımı kurtaracak (November 2025)
- El sorprendente sobreviviente del desierto que crece más rápido con el calor (November 2025)
- Рослина з Долини Смерті допоможе виростити стійкі культури (November 2025)
- In a Death Valley Shrub, Scientists See a Blueprint for Heat-Proof Crops (November 2025)
- Plant uit Death Valley blijkt een bijzondere truc te gebruiken om de extreme hitte te overleven (November 2025)
- Death Valley Plant Reveals Blueprint For Building Heat-Resilient Crops (November 2025)
- En estudio planta superresistente al calor extremo (November 2025)
- Resilient desert plant shows how agricultural crops could beat global warming (November 2025)
- Overlevingsmechanismen woestijnplant onthuld (November 2025)
- Death Valley plant reveals blueprint for heat-resilient crops (December 2025)
- How does the Tidestromia oblongifolia thrive where everything else dies (November 2025)
- USA: V Údolí smrti bola objavená rastlina, ktorá dokáže prežiť pri teplotách nad 50 stupňov (November 2025)
- Unlocking Nature’s Secrets: Death Valley Plant Provides Insights for Engineering Heat-Resilient Crops (November 2025)
- The Genetic Adaptations for Heat Survival of Arizona Honeysweet in Death Valley (November 2025)
- Flower that thrives in Death Valley may hold secret to heat adaptation (August 2023)
- kukka, joka kestää ilmastonmuuotoksen (August 2023)
- Esta planta resiste (e floresce) em meio ao deserto do Vale da Morte Leia mais em (August 2023)