bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.23.436672; this version posted March 24, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Viability markers for determination of desiccation tolerance and critical stages during 2 dehydration in Selaginella species 3 Gerardo Alejo-Jacuinde1,2,3, Tania Kean-Galeno1,3, Norma Martínez-Gallardo4, J. Daniel 4 Tejero-Díez5, Klaus Mehltreter6, John P. Délano-Frier4, Melvin J. Oliver7, June Simpson2, 5 and Luis Herrera-Estrella1,3* 6 1National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (Langebio), Centro de Investigación y 7 de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 36824, Irapuato, Guanajuato, 8 Mexico 9 2Department of Genetic Engineering, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del 10 Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 36824 Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico 11 3Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance (IGCAST), Department of Plant 12 and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, 79409 Lubbock, Texas, USA 13 4Department of Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios 14 Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 36824 Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico 15 5Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 16 54090 Tlalnepantla, Estado de Mexico, Mexico 17 6Red de Ecología Funcional, Instituto de Ecología A.C., 91070 Xalapa, Veracruz, México 18 7Division of Plant Sciences, Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, 19 Columbia, MO 65211, USA 20 Gerardo Alejo-Jacuinde:
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