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Highlight: Tardigrades and the Science of Extreme Survival
Unraveling the Mechanistic Basis for Control of Seed Longevity
The Evolution of Temperature and Desiccation-Related Protein Families in Tardigrada Reveals a Complex Acquisition of Extremotolerance
Morphological and Physiological Framework Underlying Plant Longevity in Arabidopsis thaliana
Evidence for Distinct Functions of MRE11 in Arabidopsis Meiosis
Arabidopsis TAF1 is an MRE11-interacting protein required for resistance to genotoxic stress and viability of the male gametophyte
Homologous recombination in planta is stimulated in the absence of Rad50
NBS1 plays a synergistic role with telomerase in the maintenance of telomeres in Arabidopsis thaliana
MRE11
Application of CRISPR in plant seeds!
Soaking method?
Need bioinformatics to find the RNA sequence!
Look at the reference studies from the 2025 review article for DNA repair genes!
- Highlight: Tardigrades and the Science of Extreme Survival Casey McGrath Highlight
- "Tardigrades also possess stress resistance genes that can be found in animals more broadly, such as the meiotic recombination 11 (MRE11) gene, which has been implicated in desiccation tolerance in other animals."
- Unraveling the Mechanistic Basis for Control of Seed Longevity Shuya Tan, Jie Cao, Shichun Li and Zhonghai Li Review
- "Genes involved in regulating seed longevity in Arabidopsis."