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 ...

Mosses and Liverworts. An Introduction to their Study, with Hints as to their Collection and Preservation. By T. H. Russell. New and revised edition. Pp. xvi + 211 + xiii plates. (London ...

An unrooted ML phylogenetic tree was constructed based on the alignment of the conserved ACD sequences of the red algal Hsp20 protein sequences (Figure 1). Based on the phylogenetic tree of the ...

Released in December 2010, Version 1.0 of The Plant List aimed to be comprehensive for species of vascular plants (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of bryophytes (mosses and ...