Importance and Uses of Bryophytes
- Bryophytes have the ability to initiate soil formation on lands where soil quality is weak and plants cannot grow easily.
- They maintain soil moisture and replenish nutrients and minerals in the soil.
- Some bryophytes are certainly used for assessing the productivity and nutrient content of forest types.
- They can also help in restoring the nutrients in forest vegetation.
- Sphagnum or peat mosses are used in horticulture and required to produce biofuel, and used in the extraction of organic products, in the production of whisky, and also used as insulation. So they are economically important bryophytes.
- The harvesting, processing, and sale of peat mosses is itself a massive industry.
- It is used as packaging material for storing living material as it can retain and hold water.
- During the study of various species of bryophytes, different biological phenomena have been discovered that have extensive influence on the development and research processes in areas such as genetics.
Bryophytes | Class 11 Biology
Living organisms are classified into five different categories based on their methods of nutrition, cellular structure, modes of reproduction, body composition, etc. R.H. Whittaker gave the Five Kingdom classification. The five kingdoms are Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.
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