Marchantia polymorpha lines displaying various level of resistance after inoculation with Colletotrichum nymphaeae

What can we learn from the first GWAS on bryophyte immunity? Have these plants evolved immune mechanisms similar to or different from those of angiosperms? (Spoiler: both!)
Our latest paper is out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2532723123 #Marchantia #Colletotrichum #EVOteam #LRSV

Great work @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social ! Congrats again to you and @maximebonhomme.bsky.social and to our great chief @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social for this fantastic project! Happy to be (a little!) part of it!
#EVOteam

6/6 #EVOteam

Special thank to @maximebonhomme.bsky.social for joining me in that crazy project!

To @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social for the amazing work she did (She is looking for a postdoc BTW!)

To Cyril Libourel, for helping sooooo much on pretty much everything on that paper!

The End!