The common roof moss (Ceratodon purpureus) grew in striking, clockwise spirals, according to Fred Sack. He is the study's lead investigator and professor of plant cellular and molecular biology at ...

Thin shoots of moss taken from fuzzy clumps growing in Antarctica contain evidence of how human activities are affecting life on the ice-covered continent, new research indicates.

"Moss In Space" Project To Test How Plants Grow "Up" Date: January 15, 2003 Source: Ohio State University Summary: An experiment scheduled for todays Space Shuttle Columbia mission may provide ...

Male moss plants don’t make pollen, ... Females and males of the widespread moss Ceratodon purpureus release different blends of scent compounds, Eppley and her colleagues report.

View full size Rocky Cookus, Portland State University A springtail (Folsomia candida) in patch of moss (Ceratodon purpureus).A new study from Portland State University shows that mosses produce ...

Experiments on moss grown aboard two Space Shuttle missions showed the plants didn’t behave as scientists expected them to in the near-absence of gravity. The common roof moss (Ceratodon purp… ...

They collected a number of species, but their results focused on one: Ceratodon purpureus. This moss is cosmopolitan, found from continental Antarctica to the Arctic; it has even been used to ...

The common roof moss (Ceratodon purpureus) grew in striking, clockwise spirals, according to Fred Sack. He is the study’s lead investigator and professor of plant cellular and molecular biology ...