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Flinging spores

Scientists once though that built-up pressure popped the lid of a sphagnum moss’s spore capsule (left), but new work reveals that spores fly when capsule cell walls shrivel. Pores on the capsule that were thought to exchange gases (right) actually just dry out and shrink.

Credit: Duckett et al., New Phytologist

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