Resurrection plants like Selaginella lepidophylla can survive months of drought (Credit: Alamy) To protect crops from rising droughts, scientists are looking to the genes of a small group of ...

To protect crops from rising droughts, scientists are looking to the genes of a small group of plants that can survive months of drought then regreen within hours. It was as a child growing up in ...

If you are looking for an album of weeds and their botanical names, you will come across African Club Moss. Its botanical name is Selaginella kraussiana, a plant native to Africa. This plant is a ...

1. Shoots stoloniferous; lateral lycophylls with acroscopic margin long-ciliate the base; dorsal lycophylls ovate to ovate-elliptic, apex long-aristate; axillary lycophylls lanceolate with margin ...

This remarkable structure of the tongue appears to be intended for the purpose of enabling the bird, when it has insinuated its bill between the scales of a strobilus, to lay hold of the seed by ...

Check out the latest instalment of Dan Briden's Two-Year-Old Guide which will be appearing on Sporting Life in the coming weeks and months. Dan offers pedigree guides to the strings of all the ...

Here, we performed a controlled developmental experiment on the ovulate parts (megasporophylls) in a single strobilus of Cycas sexseminifera. By removing the neighboring ones, two of the ovulate parts ...

The spores are born on a structure called a strobilus (plural form is strobili) that sticks up from the top of the plant, allowing for wider dispersion of spores. When they are producing spores, known ...

Endosporites papillatus Lycopsids (Selaginallales) Cavate trilete microspores with papillate inner bodies and a fragile outer wall have been found in association with the Early Triassic strobilus ...

"New findings in hop physiology, such as the beneficial effect of elevated CO2 on the primary metabolism of hop strobilus and the effects of vernalization and dormancy, may help in the future to ...

What is selaginella? What is it used for? Selaginella is a perennial, fern-like plant, also known as the spike moss, which grows throughout the rain forests and tropical regions of Asia and the ...

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