Yet, for some, the allure of this tropical escape is occasionally marred by an unexpected phenomenon—green algae or lumot.

The four multicellular Zygnema algae belong to the class Zygnematophyceae, the closest living relatives of land plants; it is a class of freshwater and semi-terrestrial algae with more than 4,000 ...

One of the big questions is how the earliest land plants overcame terrestrial stressors. To find out, the team generated hundreds of samples from a moss model system and two zygnematophyte algae ...