If so, you aren’t alone. Many of the lakes in our watershed district have been experiencing blooms of a harmless filamentous green algae. “These blooms are temporary, non-toxic, and a common ...

It is important that we identify the problem weed. One of the most common is filamentous algae. Algae are single-cell organisms that reproduce and join together into long, hair-like strands that ...

The results were published in Nature Communications. The closest algal relatives of land plants are the filamentous and ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

The tentacles are triggered by the slightest touch, firing a harpoon-like filament into their victim ... establish symbiotic relationships with green algae. In exchange for providing the algae ...

Marimo in the lake are formed when filamentous algae become entangled and grow into spheres by rolling with the wind and waves. The marimo’s interior, which is not exposed to light, decomposes ...