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 ...

These rare plants include more than 300 different types of mosses, lichen and liverworts. There are Daubenton’s bats too, a type with short ears. One fan, who described being "met by a lovely ...

Once the eggs are fertilized, and a diploid zygote results, the new diploid fern will start to grow, resulting in the death of the haploid gametophyte. And, even though I cut corners and ignored huge ...

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.

Low-growing mosses and liverworts were found in swampy moist areas. During the later Jurassic Period, some angiosperms (flowering plants) were also emerging. When it comes to animals, dinosaurs ...

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