This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Old-growth forests constitute rare habitat that may support rare bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) or provide refugia for populations once ...

We meet Dr Pina Milne, a botanist who takes us into the fascinating, tiny and forgotten world of “bryophytes”; plants like mosses, liverworts and hornworts “Bryophytes” is the word used to describe ...

Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it lacks both flowers and roots, yet it is an expert at survival. Now, that ...

In the news business, an evergreen is a story that doesn't have to run on a particular day, but can stay fresh for a long time. This is an evergreen story about an evergreen. In particular, a group of ...

Bryophytes are widespread, morphologically distinctive, and resilient, with fragments that easily attach to shoes, clothing, or other surfaces. These characteristics make them particularly effective ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

Using liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) as a model, researchers led by Prof. LI Hongju from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have explored the ...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Tradeoffs among functional traits of vascular plants are starting to be better understood, but it is unclear whether bryophytes possess similar tradeoffs or how trait ...

Technological innovations give rise to a new era of plant evolutionary developmental biology / K. Sakakibara -- Coevolution of organelle RNA editing and nuclear specificity factors in early land ...