Plants have evolved many different ways to cope with limited resources and have allowed plants to survive and even thrive in stressful environments such as deserts. One way to cope with drought is to construct tissues that can store large amounts of water that can be used during drought. Although many plants bear succulent leaves capable of storing a significant amount of water, little is known on the extent to which succulent leaves contrast from non-succulent leaves in terms of water relations and leaf function. A recent paper published by former lab PhD student Dr. Giacomo Mozzi and colleagues explores this question and shows that succulent leaves are fundamentally structured differently that non-succulent leaves. Results of the paper provides new insights on how different strategies plants use to limit stress and maximize resource availability.
You can check out the paper here