“…The MIPS reaction has been reported from archea (Chen et al 2000); bacteria Mande, 1999, 2000); protozoa (Lohia et al 1999); animals (Maeda and Eisenberg, 1980;Mauck et al, 1980;Biswas et al, 1981); humans (Adhikari and Majumder, 1988) and plants. Among plants the occurrence of MIPS has been described and characterized from algae (Dasgupta et al, 1984;RayChaudhuri et al, 1997); fungi (Donahue and Henry, 1981a,b;Escamilla et al 1982;Dasgupta et al 1984); pteridophytes (Chhetri et al 2005(Chhetri et al , 2006a; gymnosperm (Gumber et al, 1984;Chhetri and Chiu, 2004) and angiosperm (Loewus and Loewus, 1971;Johnson and Sussex, 1995;Johnson and Wang, 1996;RayChaudhuri et al, 1997). The present study is the first report detailing the partial purification and characterization of MIPS from a bryophyte, Lunularia cruciata occurring in the Darjeeling hills of Eastern Himalayas.…”