Cyanobacteria can provide an important source of nitrogen for mosses, but some mosses are better at attracting them than others.
Tag - bryophytes
Fi Gennu
Puzzles in Moss Genome Evolution
Some plants have pairs of chromosomes, they’re diploid organisms like us. Other plants have more than two copies of chromosomes, they’re polyploid. Strawberries can even be octoploid. Mosses can be polyploid too, but a...
Associations between shoot-level water relations and photosynthetic responses to water and light in 12 moss species
In vascular plants, water and carbon economics are closely coupled. In mosses, this relationship has been little studied but a strong coupling is expected because photosynthesis depends heavily on water content in these...
William Salter
Solute transport inside feather moss stems
Feather mosses serve as important regulatory organisms for many ecological processes in boreal forests. They are generally considered to be ectohydric species, transporting water on the surface of the plant. But is this...
botanyone
Single peat moss individuals include most of the allelic diversity in Sphagnum
Allopolyploids exhibit both different levels and patterns of genetic variation than are typical of diploids. Hitherto, little attention has been given to the apportioning of allelic diversity in such species...
Polyploidy and interspecific hybridization shape adaptation, speciation and evolution
About half of all higher plant species are recognizable as evolutionarily recent polyploids, where multiple whole genomes or sets of chromosomes have come together from close ancestors. Additionally, over evolutionary...
Botany really rocks!
For a plant life on the edge, like on a cliff face, should be peaceful. But Nigel Chaffey discovers one species has a real talent for annoying others.
Nigel Chaffey
Warming reduces stress in Antarctic moss
In moss-dominated regions of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, dramatic climate features have profoundly impacted moss biology and terrestrial ecology. In a study focused on the effects of six-years of passive warming on...
Spore settling velocity to assess moss dispersal rates
The settling velocity of diaspores is a key parameter influencing dispersal ability in wind-dispersed plants but remains largely undocumented in bryophytes. Zanatta et al. measured this parameter for nine species using...
Organellar phylogenomics of Sphagnum
Sphagnum (peatmoss) is rapidly developing as a model for ecological genomics research. Twenty or more species of Sphagnum often co-exist within peatlands and sort themselves relative to abiotic niche gradients...
Stomata and atmospheric CO2 in bryophytes
This study strengthens the hypothesis of incremental rather than early acquisition of stomatal regulatory processes through land plant evolution.
Stomatal density and aperture in non-vascular plants are non-responsive to above-ambient CO2 concentrations
Stomata are one of the crucial adaptations in the evolution of the land flora and the development of the terrestrial landscape and atmosphere on Earth. These microscopic pores on the plant epidermis first appeared in...
AJ Cann
Brilliant bird-brained bryophyte diaspore diaspora…
There is an ancient and time-honoured association – maybe co-evolution even – between birds and flowering plants, e.g. in respect of pollination and dispersal of the fruits/seeds of the latter by the former. Now, at the...
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