Question

describe any five economic importance of Bryophytes.


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Answer 1

Importance to humans and ecologyThe peat moss genus Sphagnum is an economically important bryophyte. The harvesting, processing, and sale of Sphagnum peat is a multimillion-dollar industry. Peat is used in horticulture, as an energy source (fuel), and, to a limited extent, in the extraction of organic products, in whiskey production, and as insulation.Bryophytes are very important in initiating soil formation on barren terrain, in maintaining soil moisture, and in recycling nutrients in forest vegetation. Indeed, discerning the presence of particular bryophytes is useful in assessing the productivity and nutrient status of forest types. Further, through the study of bryophytes, various biological phenomena have been discovered that have had a profound influence on the development of research in such areas as genetics and cytology.
…such nonvascular plants as the bryophytes, in which all cells in the plant body participate in every function necessary to support, nourish, and extend the plant body (e.g., nutrition, photosynthesis, and cell division), angiosperms have evolved specialized cells and tissues that carry out these.Division Bryophyta (mosses) Small, mostly nonvascular, archegoniate plants with a dominant photosynthetic free-living gametophyte; sporophyte has little or no chlorophyll and is dependent on gametophyte; biflagellate sperm. Gametophytes “leafy” and radially symmetrical, with leaflike structures arising spirally from stemlike axis; many chloroplasts per cell;READ MOREplant development: Body plans…parenchyma is found in the bryophytes, in both the gametophyte and sporophyte phases. The development of the moss gametophyte illustrates the transition from a filamentous to a highly organized three-dimensional growth form. The moss spore germinates into a filamentous plant, the protonema, which later produces a leafy shoot. This type…READ MOREplant reproductive system…two great divisions (or phyla)—the Bryophyta (mosses and liverworts) and the Tracheophyta (vascular plants). The vascular plants include four subdivisions: the three entirely seedless groups are the Psilopsida, Lycopsida, and
Moss, (division Bryophyta), any of at least 12,000 species of small nonvascular spore-bearing land plants. Mosses are distributed throughout the world except in salt water and are commonly found in moist shady locations. They are best known for those species that carpet woodland and forest floors. Ecologically, mosses break downREAD MOREADDITIONAL MEDIAMORE ABOUT Bryophyte7 REFERENCES FOUND IN BRITANNICA ARTICLESAssorted Referencesangiosperm comparisonIn angiospermannotated classificationIn plant: Annotated classificationdevelopmentIn plant development: Body plansphylogenyIn phylogeny: Cyanobacteria, algae, and other early forms of lifeIn plant: Evolution and paleobotanyreproductionIn plant reproductive systemtissue characterIn tissue: Plants

Answer 2

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ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF BRYOPHYTES :-

1. PEAT :::-
sphagum often grow in acidic marshes. the older date part of mousi and marshy plant got slowly carbonized, compressed and fossilised over thousands of years and have produced a dark spongy Mass called Peat . peat, is dried compressed and cut to form blocks . Peat blocks are used as fuel. peat it also good manure

2. PREVENTION OF SOIL EROSION:::-
bryophytes, especially mosses, for dence Mats over the soil and prevent from erosion against falling rains.

3. SOIL FORMATION:::-
mosses are an important link in plant succession on Rocky area. they take part in building soil in rocky crevuces found by lichens. growth of sphagnum ultimately fails pond and lake with soils.

4. MEDICINAL USE :::-
a decocation of polytrichum commune is used in removing kidney stones

5. OTHER USES :::-
in rocky and Ice cold area mosses are a good source of food for certain animals like birds. a decoction of polytherichum commune was employed in removing kidney stones.

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