The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40571085 and 30670152);the National Infrastructure of Natural Resources for Science and Technology(No.2005DKA21403);Science and Social Practice Foundation of Graduate Students in Chinese Academy of Sciences(Investigation on Algal Distribution in Gurbantunggut Desert,Xinjiang,China)。
Algae and mosses are not only two of the familiar communities in the process of desert vegetational succession,but also have the highest biomass in biological soil crusts.Meanwhile,being the pioneer plants,algae and m...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.90202019);Hebei Province (No.303150).
The spore germination,protonemal development,and gametophyte differentiation of Hypnum pacleseens were observed in cultivation.Photomicrographs showed that spore germination of Hypnum pacleseens occured within the exo...