Though it's not advised, liverworts have traditionally been used for some medicinal purposes, including pain relief. The new study found that there may be substance to the claims of medicinal ...

The liverwort compound may also have fewer negative side effects such as memory loss and loss of coordination, he says. “Cannabinoids have a broad range of applications,” Gertsch notes.

Liverwort could prove to be more medically effective than cannabis, research suggests. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 10 / 181024142607.htm ...

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.

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 ...

THC and PET side by side. Oliver Kayser. What’s interesting about this is that while the levels of cis-PET found in the liverwort plant are too low to produce the “high” effects produced by ...

Liverwort genes and land plant evolution Genome analysis of early plant lineage sheds light on how plants learned to thrive on land Date: October 5, 2017 ...

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 ...

NATURE’S DESIGN The female reproductive structures of the umbrella liverwort, shown here, capture sperm-filled water droplets under their fronds. Katja Schulz/flickr.com ( CC BY 2.0 ) Share this: ...

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 ...