An easy fern to identify, it grows in fountain-like clumps and has glossy, dark green leaflets, or pinnae. This is Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides), named for its evergreen habit and the ...

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The results showed that syringomycin was toxic in non-flowering plants (represented in this study by model species of a liverwort and fern), causing tissue death and activation of stress-related ...

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First evolving some 360 million years ago, ferns are one of the oldest plant species on Earth. But the secret to the chain fern’s evolutionary reversal has more to do with what it lacks.

Moving through plant lineages, from spore-bearing lycophytes to ferns to flowering plants, reproduction becomes more and more specialized. Indeed, the flower is often diagrammed as the end goal of ...

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But ferns are an important exception. Ferns have multiple reproductive strategies. Most species combine spore development and photosynthesis on a single leaf type – a strategy called monomorphism.

(Laurenprue216/Wikipedia /CC BY-SA) Across the plant kingdom, once species evolved reproductive structures such as seeds, cones and flowers, they did not revert to simpler, undifferentiated forms.