Multicellular organisms establish distinct cellular identities leading to individual tissues, cell types and functions when cells acquire specific cellular fates in response to environmental signals ...

In oxygenic photosynthesis, solar energy is converted to chemical energy by two supermolecular machineries, photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII), which work in series in the thylakoid ...

Almost all land plants employ an army of molecular editors who correct errors in their genetic information. Researchers have now transferred one of these proofreaders from the moss Physcomitrium ...

A research team found that arginine metabolism has a vital role in regulating gametophore shoot formation in the moss Physcomitrium patens. Arginine metabolism boosts to make a plant body complex, ...

Unless one is a trained fighter jet pilot, or a Formula 1 driver, humans tend not to do well at higher gravity, but tiny green moss plants seem to thrive under such conditions. A team from Japan found ...

The image shows protonemal tissue of moss Physcomitrium patens. The tissue is composed of longer caulonemal cells with less chloroplast that grow away from the main plant (top part of the image) and ...

In an extraordinary display of biological resilience, moss spores survived for nine months outside the International Space Station. The spores were then returned to Earth, where 86 percent germinated ...