Mosses, liverworts, ferns and algae may offer an exciting new research frontier in the global challenge of protecting crops from the threat of disease. These non-flowering plants are often regarded as ...

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 ...

Orchids, mosses, ferns—or epiphytes, defined as nonparasitic plants that grow on other plants—are crucial for Earth's biodiversity and play essential roles in forests around the world, building ...

Insect-plant interactions in fern and moss ecosystems represent a largely understudied yet ecologically significant component of terrestrial food webs. Bryophytes and pteridophytes offer distinct ...

Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million years. Giant tree fern forests were common for millions of years but they gave ...

When we exit October, we are in the interlude between the leaf drop and a snow cover. For a while, often about 30 days, the ...

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 ...

Mosses, liverworts, ferns and algae may offer an exciting new research frontier in the global challenge of protecting crops from the threat of disease. Mosses, liverworts, ferns and algae may offer an ...