Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Plant Biology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Marks, R. A., Ekwealor, J. T. B., Artur, M. A. S., Bondi, L., Boothby, T. C., Carmo, O. M. S., Centeno, D. C., Coe, K. K., Dace, H. J. W., Field, S., Hutt, A., Porembski, S., Thalhammer, A., van der Pas, L., Wood, A. J., Alpert, P., Bartels, D., Boeynaems, S., Datar, M. N., ... Rhee, S. Y. (2025). Life on the dry side: a roadmap to understanding desiccation tolerance and accelerating translational applications. Nature communications, 16(1), Article 3284. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58656-y

Tebele, S. M., Marks, R. A., & Farrant, J. M. (2025). Microbial survival strategies in desiccated roots of Myrothamnus flabellifolia. Frontiers in Microbiology, 16, Article 1560114. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1560114

Marks, R. A., Van Der Pas, L., Schuster, J., Gilman, I. S., & VanBuren, R. (2024). Convergent evolution of desiccation tolerance in grasses. Nature plants, 10(7), 1112-1125. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01729-5

Marks, R. A., Delgado, P., Makonya, G. M., Cooper, K., Vanburen, R., & Farrant, J. M. (2024). Higher order polyploids exhibit enhanced desiccation tolerance in the grass Microchloa caffra. Journal of experimental botany, 75(11), 3612-3623. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae126

Marks, R. A. (2024). Resurrection plants revisited: bridging the gap between bryophytes and angiosperms to decode desiccation tolerance. New Phytologist, 243(3), 828-829. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19719

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