Marchantia polymorpha, the liverwort used as a model organism. (IMAGE)

Tokyo University of Science

Marchantia polymorpha, the liverwort used as a model organism.

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Researchers from Japan conducted various experiments on this liverwort species to demonstrate that the mechanism underlying the activation of ROS-producing enzymes are likely shared among all land plants. This image was obtained using stereo microscope Nikon SMZ25.

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Kenji Hashimoto and Kazuyuki Kuchitsu from TUS

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