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