Tiny, low-growing green plants with lobed leaves cover the ground in small patches among the stones around Maurice Cullen’s pond in Kings Grant in Virginia Beach. Called liverworts, these primitive ...

I hate to admit it, but, I've known about liverworts for quite some time without having bothered to look for them in my neighborhood. Finding them is an interesting challenge — they are tiny and many ...

Studying plant vegetative reproduction is key to increasing crop yield and for bioengineering. Kobe University research is making progress in studying the genetic regulation of the process in ...

Hidden beneath the damp shade of sal forests in West Bengal’s West Midnapore district, a tiny plant barely a few millimetres long has quietly rewritten a chapter of Indian botany.

Liverwort uses hair-like rhizoids to collect phosphorus from its surroundings and deliver it to where it is needed. This Kobe University discovery sheds light on the evolution of one of the most ...

NOTWITHSTANDING the frequent use of the term “lifehistory,” the book under consideration only deals with the morphological side of the subject, and will be of greater service to systematists than to ...

I tend to notice liverworts the most while hiking in the mountains, probably because I am spending so much time looking down, trying not to trip. While the trees both down here near the coast and up ...

We might get a taste of sunny spring weather this weekend, and that makes it a good time for free fun outdoors. If you’re not scheduled for an egg hunt, go seek out creatures of the tideflats. Join ...

A gene that regulates the development of roots in vascular plants is also involved in the organ development of liverworts — land plants so old they don’t even have proper roots. The Kobe University ...

The relationship between carbon dioxide and climate over millions of years has been a source of controversy. Fossilized liverwort leaves can help illuminate both temperature and atmospheric carbon ...