Just like us, plants need water to survive. Most familiar plants use internal plumbing and tiny pores to control how water moves through their bodies and into the environment. I study liverworts, a moss relative that deals with water differently. Some can dry out and “wake up” when they get wet again. Others move water along the outside of their bodies or store many times their weight in water. Because liverworts are quite similar to the earliest land plants, studying them can help us understand how plants first adapted to life on land.
Research keyword/s: Liverworts
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