Modern Farmer: What motivated you to start Mountain Moss? ‘Every time I see the bulldozers, my heart aches for all of the plants that got destroyed.’ Annie Martin: I had a two-pronged stimulus. Number ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

Learning about flowering plants (angiosperms) can be a lifelong study for a gardener. One report states that they include 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and about 295,383 known ...

Under the roof of what was once to become the residence of the future King of Finland, researchers painstakingly study herbarium specimens of mosses, liverworts and hornworts, also known as bryophytes ...

Large mammals and exotic plants get all the attention, and conservation efforts are often directed at protecting them. Who who protects our mosses? This often-neglected group of non-vascular lower ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The Bryologist, Vol. 110, No. 4 (Winter, 2007), pp. 752-765 (14 pages) We examined "moss" (mosses and liverworts) purchased from commercial harvesters at a regional buying shed and in potentially ...

Researchers have succeeded in the world's first visualization of a peptidoglycan 'wall' present in the chloroplasts of bryophytes (moss plants). Until now, chloroplasts of green plants were considered ...

In the Mojave Desert, a translucent crystal offers bryophytes much-needed respite from the heat of the sun. A piece of quartz hiding a species of moss, Syntrichia caninervis, in the Mojave Desert of ...

1. Climate change in northern high latitudes is predicted to be greater in winter rather than summer, yet little is known about the effects of winter climate change on northern ecosystems. Among the ...

Good news, mountain lovers! India has just got its first Moss garden which was inaugurated at Nainital district in Uttarakhand by Rajendra Singh, Ramon Magsaysay awardee and well-known water ...