Millennial timescale regeneration in a moss from Antarctica
Mosses, dominant elements in the vegetation of polar and alpine regions, have well-developed stress tolerance features permitting cryptobiosis. However, direct regeneration after longer periods of cryptobiosis has been demonstrated only from herbarium and frozen material preserved for 20 years at mo...
| Published in: | Current Biology |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014
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| Online Access: | https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/40289/ https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/40289/1/1-s2.0-S0960982214000864-main.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.053 |
| Summary: | Mosses, dominant elements in the vegetation of polar and alpine regions, have well-developed stress tolerance features permitting cryptobiosis. However, direct regeneration after longer periods of cryptobiosis has been demonstrated only from herbarium and frozen material preserved for 20 years at most. Recent field observations of new moss growth on the surface of small moss clumps re-exposed from a cold-based glacier after about 400 years of ice cover have been accompanied by regeneration in culture from homogenised material, but there are no reported instances of regrowth occurring directly from older preserved material. |
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