Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation present in sunlight is an important trigger of photomorphogenic acclimation and stress responses in sessile land plants. Although numerous moss species grow in unshaded ...

Bryophytes, the most basal of the extant land plants, diverged at least 450 million years ago. A major feature of these plants is the biphasic alternation of generations between a dominant haploid ...

A research team has revealed that the MADS-box genes control sperm motility and cell division and elongation of the stem of gametophores, using the moss Physcomitrella patens. Flowering plants have ...

When a sperm and an egg cell merge a new life begins. This is the case in humans and in animals, but in principle also in plants. A team of biologists has discovered a gene trigger in the moss ...

Berkeley -- Some 400 million years ago, on a lifeless lakeshore lapped by waves, floating algae learned to survive in the open air and launched an invasion that transformed the Earth into a green ...

A research team led by Professor Tomomichi Fujita of Hokkaido University has confirmed that the moss Physcomitrella patens, a widely used model organism, maintains a high survival rate even after ...

Jinling Huang from East Carolina University studied the genome of the moss Physcomitrella patens and found 128 genes that originated in fungi, bacteria, and viruses, not other plants. The results, ...

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 ...