Hosted on MSN
Hair-like rhizoids in liverworts transport phosphorus, shedding light on evolution of roots
To look for an answer, Ishizaki and his team turned to the common liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, a model organism for bryophytes, specifically to investigate how it absorbs and transports phosphorus ...
Despite lacking mechanisms for absorbing water and nutrients like roots and vascular tissue of other land plants, the common liverwort Marchantia polymorpha absorbs and transfer nutrients using its ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results