Bryophytes are widespread, morphologically distinctive, and resilient, with fragments that easily attach to shoes, clothing, or other surfaces. These characteristics make them particularly effective ...

Non-vascular bryophytes live in colonies that cover the ground and resemble tiny forests. In a real forest, plants compete for light in different layers of the canopy. If a plant does not receive ...

Bryophytes, comprising mosses, liverworts and hornworts, represent some of the earliest land plants and display a remarkable array of specialised metabolites. Their phytochemical repertoire includes ...

Many once-dominant land plants have either gone extinct or been reduced to an ecological role that represents just a shadow of their past importance 1,2. Under the sequential replacement hypothesis ...

Discover the unsung heroes of nature, bryophytes, the tiny yet mighty plants that rescue our environment. Non-vascular and adaptable, they thrive in diverse climates, preventing floods, erosion, and ...

Non-vascular bryophytes live in colonies that cover the ground and resemble tiny forests. In a real forest, plants compete for light in different layers of the canopy. If a plant does not receive ...

We meet Dr Pina Milne, a botanist who takes us into the fascinating, tiny and forgotten world of “bryophytes”; plants like mosses, liverworts and hornworts “Bryophytes” is the word used to describe ...

Herbicide resistance poses a challenge to producing enough food for a growing population. Sam Caygill and colleagues at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences discovered ...

Bryophytes are an important part of our environment, but in the tropics, there’s still much to learn about them. Vanessa Crooks Bryophytes in the tropics are threatened due to lack of information and ...