Meet Dr. Eric Schuettpelz, a botanist who studies ferns and fern biodiversity at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. During this webcast, which originally aired on April 19, 2018, ...
(a) Sporophytes and (b) independent gametophytes. (c) Strap-like individual gametophytes under the microscope. Scale bar is 5.0mm. (d) Clonal forming (reproduction) by gametophytes under the ...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unfurling fiddlehead of the Christmas fern (_Polystichum acrostichoides_). Jacob S. Suissa, CC BY-ND Imagine a photograph of your ...
"The second printing of this book has permitted a few emendations in the keys and correction of some typographical errors, incorrect references, and incorrect names, notably Polystichum lachenense for ...
Ferns represent a globally distributed lineage of monilophytes encompassing roughly 12 000 species, second only to flowering plants in vascular plant diversity. Their evolutionary history stretches ...
On a beautiful Saturday morning in early June, I volunteered at Wilson’s Farm in Brighton Township for an environmental field study to learn the language of ferns. Though I often noticed copious ...
Passing on fundamental life lessons from parent to offspring is not unique to humans and animals. Ferns do it too. Not with words, but through pressure. By applying force at precisely the right ...
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that the fern Hymenasplenium murakami-hatanakae can become independent gametophytes, i.e., live for long periods without a ...