Ferns may have potential in rehabilitating land following work by WA researchers who investigated how ferns are able to survive in semi-arid environments of Australia. The research, undertaken by a ...

Normally ferns are bought as ready grown plants and this often means paying a premium price - but there's a cheaper way to grow ferns. It involves using their spore and it's much more fun. The place ...

When spore-forming bacteria, such as Bacillus or Clostridium, enter a state of starvation, they transform into a state of dormancy in order to survive. No other life form is as difficult to eliminate ...

This protocol describes a method combining phase-contrast and fluorescence microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and optical tweezers to characterize the germination of single bacterial spores. The ...

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