Feng believes the developmental specificity that she found in the little liverwort raises a provocative question: Are there more such “hidden” epigenetic modifications that occur in short ...

Now, researchers have demonstrated that this marker -- N4-methylcytosine (4mC) -- is essential for sperm development and maturation in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, a key organism in plant ...

A relative of mosses, the liverwort Marchantia is one of the oldest existing plant forms and probably the oldest lineage of plants to colonize land. In addition to its central function in the ...

Minnesota has two varieties of hepatica: sharp-lobed and round-lobed to distinguish their three-lobed leaves with mottled coloring which inspires common names of liverwort or liverleaf.

This year marks the 55th anniversary of Earth Day celebrating nature and this beautiful planet we live on. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, when 20 million people attended inaugural ...

The object of their search was a humble weed-like non-flowering plant, a type of liverwort called Marchantia polymorpha that typically inhabits cracks in pavements. "We work with lab-grown ...

Digital pictures taken by Darrah reveal that it has, in fact, moved. Under the skirts of leafy liverworts, Mitchell finds the smallest blueberry look-alike of the trip, Barbeyella minutissima.

Xiaoqi Feng holding a male liverwort in her lab at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).

The antheridiophore, the structure carrying the male sexual organs of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha.

The dominant families and genera of bryophyte in the Korean Peninsula and the three northeastern provinces are highly similar, and the species richness of mosses and liverworts in the two study areas ...

Human-driven extinction of large herbivores across Europe has had marked effects on forest structure and dynamics, creating a mismatch between current environmental conditions and those in which ...