Throughout much of Florida's famed Everglades, an invasive, light-green vine called Old World climbing fern now cloaks the forest floor. Besides smothering shrubs and even small trees with its dense, ...
The understory of our forests is graced with lots of ferns in a variety of shapes and sizes. Ferns (along with trees and wildflowers) are classified as vascular plants, meaning that they all have ...
The discovery that a functional WUS gene originated in ferns also reshapes our understanding of stem cell evolution in land plants. More broadly, the study underscores that regeneration and stress ...