Culture of rhizoidal tubers on an aquatic moss in the lakes near the Syowa Station area, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Satoshi Imura, Masanobu Higuchi, Hiroshi Kanda, Zennoske Iwatsuki
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Botanical Institute,Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University/ Botanical Institute,Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University/ National Institute of Polar Research/Botanical Institute,Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University 1992
• Subjects: Syowa Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology; Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=5159; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00005159/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=5159&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

The rhizoidal tubers of a moss collected from the bottom of the lakes in the Syowa Station area, Continental Antarctica, were cultured Protonemata and leafy plants were developed from the tubers stored in a freezer for about two years Anthendia and archegoma were formed in the same inflorescence at the tip of the plants The morphological characters and the synoicous sexual condition of the plants agree closely with those of Leptobryum pyriforme (Hedw) Wils.