My group is interested in studying plants and bacteria with high tolerance to abiotic stress (drought, cold, salinity, among others). We investigate the biochemical, physiological, and molecular mechanisms they use to survive. We have experience with Arabidopsis thaliana and Craterostigma plantgineum as model plants. In recent years we have focused on the study of mosses with extreme protoplasmic tolerance to desiccation, freezing, and very high concentrations of sodium chloride. The models used are the mosses Pseudocrossidium replicatum, Bryum billarderi, and Physcomitrella patens. We are conducting RNAseq studies of P. replicatum subjected to different abiotic factors and stimuli (dehydration, rehydration, ABA, NaCl, sorbitol, glucose). The identified genes are currently studied using constitutive and induced overexpression, knockouts, and gene editing mediated by the CRISPR-Cas system.