BRYOMOLECULES PROJECT

We are a passionate team of researchers and innovators, dedicated to unlocking the potential of bryophytes for a sustainable future.

Liverworts, an ancient group of land plants, are a rich and yet still underexploited source of a wide range of biologically active compounds with high potential for the bioeconomy sector as ingredients of cosmetics/cosmeceuticals and pharmaceutics. However, their slow growth rate in nature and the consequent difficulty to obtain large amounts of single compounds have until now severely hindered the in-depth exploration and exploitation of the full spectrum of activities of liverworts secondary metabolites.