Mosses and ferns offer hope against plant disease
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Science Daily reports, "Mosses, liverworts, ferns and algae may offer an exciting new research frontier in the global challenge of protecting crops from the threat of disease.
"These non-flowering plants are often regarded as unsophisticated compared to their flowering relatives - which include major crops.
"However, new research carried out by the John Innes Centre has found that non-flowering bryophytes, and mosses in particular, contain sophisticated immune receptor repertoires."