Millennial timescale regeneration in a moss from Antarctica

Roads, E., Longton, R. E. and Convey, P. (2014) Millennial timescale regeneration in a moss from Antarctica. Current Biology, 24 (6). R222-R223. ISSN 0960-9822 doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.053

Abstract/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.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/40289
Identification Number/DOI	10.1016/j.cub.2014.01.053
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Publisher	Elsevier
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