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 ...

Xiaoqi Feng holding a male liverwort in her lab at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).

The antheridiophore, the structure carrying the male sexual organs of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha.

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 ...

Around 2am on April 16 in Geneva, the World Health Organization’s member states finalized the draft of a global pandemic agreement. Aimed at strengthening pandemic prevention, preparedness, and ...

Minnesota has two varieties of hepatica: sharp-lobed and round-lobed to distinguish their three-lobed leaves with mottled coloring which inspires common names of liverwort or liverleaf.

The sperm find eggs by following chemical signals, and upon contact, the two gametes form a zygote that develops into an embryo within the archegonium, the female sex organ. The embryo eventually ...

The dominant families and genera of bryophyte in the Korean Peninsula and the three northeastern provinces are highly similar, and the species richness of mosses and liverworts in the two study areas ...