Víctor Fernández Roces

INTRODUCTION Model organisms have played a crucial role in deepening our understanding of core biological processes, shaping research topics in plant sciences. However, there is a strong bias in the taxa studied, with angiosperms, particularly Magnoliopsida, representing 93% of the records (Shiu and Lehti-Shiu, 2023). This creates a huge knowledge bottleneck, mainly due to the narrow phylogenetic and ecological spectrum covered.

INTRODUCTION Environmental fluctuations exert selective pressure on plants as sessile organisms, potentially resulting in irreversible and irreparable consequences when occurring rapidly, intensely and unexpectedly. Climate change has already caused shifts in the local distribution of some species that are unable to cope with such perturbations and adapt.