Azolla filiculoides, conocido comúnmente como helecho de agua, helechito del agua, alfombra o peste del agua, es una especie de helecho acuático flotante que forma parte de la familia Azollaceae. Esta ...
A new CABI-led study suggests that a tiny weevil (Stenopelmus rufinasus) has huge benefits in saving Great Britain up to £16.8m in annual management costs of the invasive aquatic fern Azolla ...
On July 17, 2014, the world decided it wanted to learn the genomic secrets hidden in the beautiful little, floating water fern, Azolla filiculoides. Not only did they want to know, but they paid for ...
When you’re a tiny fern in a big, cruel world, how do you survive insect attacks and stay fed? Teaming up with bacteria might do the trick! Biologists have sequenced the genomes of ferns for the first ...
Azolla is a floating aquatic fern with a very fast growth. That’s important for multiple reasons, the first being that the fern shows “great promise as a biofuel,” says Rothfel. While it’s been used ...
La secuenciación del genoma de Azolla filiculoides realizada por más de cuarenta científicos de todo el mundo ha reabierto el quimérico sueño de la capacidad de ese pequeño helecho acuático para ...
Despite being one of the most diverse groups of plants on the planet, ferns were until recently the only major plant group to not have their genomes sequenced. Now, for the first time ever, biologists ...
La Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre (FNYH) ha finalizado recientemente los trabajos de retirada del helecho azolla que habían colonizado la superficie de un par de lagunas en la Reserva de Campanarios de ...
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