A factorial design was used to optimize the extraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from mosses, plants used as biomonitors of air pollution.
We have conducted a broad survey of fully sequenced genomes, including representatives of Amoebozoa, yeasts, fungi algae, mosses, plants (monocots and eudicots), vertebrate (mammalian, fish and amphibian) and invertebrate (insect), for the presence of DGAT1 and DGAT2 gene homologs.
The eggs in moss plants are fertilized by swimming sperm, which need to stay moist.
The stemlike and leaflike structures of moss plants constitute the gametophytic (sexual) generation.
Researchers discovered that the sexual reproduction of moss plants had unexpected help and that an unusual form of inheritance known only in plants also occurred in mice.
Its opening pages introduce a cast of narrators (including an astronomer, a geologist, a paleontologist, and the author); leading animals (trilobites, cephalopods, sea scorpions) and plants (seaweeds, moss plants, ferns), and supporting players (protozoa, jellyfish, corals, brachiopods; worms, round, flat, and segmented).
The methane discrepancy could be explained if the living moss plants gobble up the gas as it's produced.
Suspecting that the moss may be getting help from a microbe, a team led by Jaap Damsté and Marc Strous, microbiologists at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Den Burg, respectively, gave moss plants a vigorous washing and then probed them for the presence of bacterial RNA.
Young moss plants regenerating from protoplasts are composed exclusively of protonemal tissue and one can measure growth by comparing the area of individual plants.
Therefore, a wide spectrum of morphological and developmental alterations is observed in moss plants transformed with a gene-disruption library.
When moss plants further diverged to dicotyledons, no introns were inserted in the coding region of XIPs.
