Much like Frodo in The Lord of the Rings, the fern Azolla filiculoides proves that the small can certainly pack a punch. This minuscule water fern, which has leaves the size of a single gnat, is the ...

On July 17, 2014, the world decided it wanted to learn the genomic secrets hidden in the beautiful little, floating water fern, Azolla filiculoides. Not only did they want to know, but they paid for ...

When you’re a tiny fern in a big, cruel world, how do you survive insect attacks and stay fed? Teaming up with bacteria might do the trick! Biologists have sequenced the genomes of ferns for the first ...

Despite being one of the most diverse groups of plants on the planet, ferns were until recently the only major plant group to not have their genomes sequenced. Now, for the first time ever, biologists ...

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With crowdfunded support, researchers have sequenced the first two fern genomes ever. Their results include the discovery of an ancient gene transfer and novel symbiosis mechanisms. On July 17, 2014, ...

In a major environmental concern, Azolla, an obnoxious water fern, never reported here earlier, is seen engulfed in large portions of Kumaharia and Rang Sagar water bodies. Udaipur: In a major ...

Two morphologically distinct classes of epidermal trichomes, termed simple and branched hairs, are shown to occur in Azolla caroliniana Willd. leaf cavities. The two hair types have significantly ...