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...
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...
Stomata in the moss Funaria are regularly spaced at the base of the capsule. Merced and Renzaglia describe the patterning and distribution of stomata and how they are coordinated with the formation of substomatal...
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...
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...
31 minute documentary made for the Philippe De Zuttere Bryological Foundation. Discovery of the plant mosses with Philippe Dezuttere, field bryologist.
Tropical bryophytes greatly increase in abundance and diversity with altitude, but the reasons for this are unclear. Wagner et al. study temperature responses of net photosynthesis (NP) and dark respiration (RD) in 18...