However, the number of gametophyte cells is small and they are completely enclosed in the sporophyte. The gametophytes differentiate into male and female gametophytes.

Kobe University researchers discovered that the RLF gene, vital for lateral root development in Arabidopsis, also regulates organ development in liverworts. Their findings suggest that evolution ...

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 ...

It has no doubt been chosen because it has, in comparison with the majority of liverworts, a relatively massive gametophyte and a large sporophyte ; it is also a widely distributed and common plant.

This section is followed by two further sections, dealing with the anatomy of gametophyte and sporophyte respectively, in which each group of the liverworts is passed in review in turn.

What does a phytophysiognomic mosaic reveal about mosses and liverworts from the subtropical Atlantic Forest?

This liverwort species was discovered in 2020 growing among other tiny plants on the buttress of a Terminalia subspathulata heritage tree, during a survey in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

A new study from the National Centre for Biotechnology and Medicinal Chemistry Institute suggests Mother Nature delivered — in the form of liverworts. They found that the bryophyte Marchantia ...

The liverworts without the oil body were eaten by pill bugs, but the liverworts with an increased number of oil bodies were not, indicating that the oil bodies have a function for protection ...

Particularly savvy drug enthusiasts may have heard of making tea from Radula, a member of the liverwort family whose effects are similar to those of cannabis. For anybody who hasn’t, you may be ...