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A requirement of ALBA proteins for growth is recurrent in several plant species (Honkanen et al, 2016; Magwanga et al, 2019), first observed in the liverwort M. polymorpha where the sole long ...

Six new pairs of bibenzyl-based meroterpenoid enantiomers, (±)-rasumatranin A–D (1–4) and (±)-radulanin M and N (5 and 6), and six known compounds were isolated from the adnascent Chinese liverwort, ...

Liverwort genera such as Cololejeunea and Cheilolejeunea had a large increase in the number of species and endemic taxa, with an increase from 17 species (one endemic) in 2010 to 37 (eight endemic) in ...