polytrichum alpinum/sucrose

After application of 2 μc bicarbonate-(14)C on a single leaf of the gametophyte of Polytrichum commune L., labeled organic material moves upward with a velocity of at least 32 cm per hour. Historadiographs of transsections showed that radioactivity occurs in the leptoids of the stem and in certain

The sporophyte of bryophytes is dependent on the gametophyte for its carbon nutrition. This is especially true of the sporophytes of Polytrichum species, and it was generally thought that sucrose was the main form of sugar for long distance transport in the leptom. In Polytrichum formosum, sucrose

Callus-like tissues, isolated from protonemal cultures of two species of mosses, grow vigorously and without marked differentiation on media containing sucrose, casamino acids, and coconut milk. On mineral agar and on media containing sorbitol the tissue from Polytrichum (found diploid) reverts to