The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has been utilized as a model for biological studies
since the 18th century. In the past few decades, there has been a Renaissance in its …

Liverworts occupy a basal position in the evolution of land plants, and are a key group to
address a wide variety of questions in plant biology. Marchantia polymorpha is a common …

Bryophytes occupy a basal position in the monophyletic evolution of land plants and have a
life cycle in which the gametophyte generation dominates over the sporophyte generation …

While Marchantia polymorpha has been utilized as a model system to investigate
fundamental biological questions for over almost two centuries, there is renewed interest in …

The evolution of land flora transformed the terrestrial environment. Land plants evolved from
an ancestral charophycean alga from which they inherited developmental, biochemical, and …

Bryophytes are nonvascular spore-forming plants. Unlike in flowering plants, the
gametophyte (haploid) generation of bryophytes dominates the sporophyte (diploid) …

While written accounts of plants date back thousands of years, due to the degradation of
scientific literature during the dark ages descriptions descended from Greek writings are …

One of the classical research plants in plant biology, Marchantia polymorpha, is drawing
attention as a new model system. Its ease of genetic transformation and a genome …

The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha is equipped with a wide range of molecular and
genetic tools and resources that have led to its wide use to explore the evo-devo aspects of …

Bryophytes represent a sister to the rest of land plants. Despite their evolutionary importance
and relatively simple body plan, a comprehensive understanding of the cell types and …