(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 ...
Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 45, No. 273 (APRIL 1994), pp. 477-483 (7 pages) Young gametophytes of the sensitive fern, Onoclea sensibilis, respond to heat-shock by synthesizing in excess ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aquaporins are transmembrane proteins that move water specifically and bidirectionally in response to internal cell signaling. With aquaporins ...
A new special issue of Applications in Plant Sciences, “Methodologies in Gametophyte Biology,” highlights an often overlooked aspect of the botanical world. A collection of 15 articles describes ...
A textbook truism about the poor ferns being held back by a weak link in their life cycle may not be so true after all. The upright bursts of fronds that we think of as ferns produce unferny offspring ...