Hey Sven, thank you for stopping-by, I am not an ecophysiologist but while everyone is focused on the animal kingdom I like every now and then to keep on eye on plants, sometime you realize they came up with some interesting mechanisms for surviving in very harsh environments, for example we could learn from their ability to survive in low oxygen environments to design gene therapy strategies to treat or prevent stroke or to increase cell survival during transplants. There is a lot I don't know about how plants deploy their stem cells I will certainly read more about it, in the meantime if you would like to read some of the papers I cited I could send them to you if you don't have access to them