Thirty years later, in 1994, the Japanese phytochemist Yoshinori Asakawa identified a related substance in the liverwort plant Radula perrottetii.He called it perrottetinene, or PET, and it was ...

Qiu's group used three complementary sets of genetic data, involving more than 700 gene sequences, to resolve relationships among the four major lineages of land plants: liverworts, mosses ...

Microplants enlisted the help of 11,000 volunteers willing to spend time analyzing liverwort photos, either remotely online or via an in-person digital kiosk at one of the museum’s exhibitions.

A chemical compound found in liverworts may provide the pain and inflammation relief of pot’s THC but without the same kind of high. Both the molecule, called perrottetinene, and ...

The secret lives of ancient land plants Cracking of the liverwort genome sheds light on land plant evolution Date: November 2, 2017 Source: Kyoto University ...

Move over, marijuana: Scientists have their eye on a THC-like psychoactive chemical found in the unassuming, lumpy Radula, a group of plants in the liverwort family.That’s not to say that some ...

What we do know now, however, is that the levels of PET that are found in the natural liverwort plant are too low to produce the recognised effects of THC, so smoking it is unlikely to lead to a high.

In the study published in Nature Communications, the evolutionary relationship between two different organelles in liverwort cells has been revealed: the cell plate, which divides cells during ...