Various tissue cross-sections of Marchantia paleacea thalli and cartoon (top) showing site of cross-sections

It's good to talk...💬

Yoda et al. show that #strigolactones are synthesised in #Marchantia paleacea basal ventral tissues & secreted into the rhizosphere to facilitate effective communication with #AMfungi

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#PlantScience
#Phytohormones
#PlantMicrobeInteractions

#JTPB2026

Junko Kyozuka kick-starts the day’s session with her illuminating talk on #Marchantia paleacea to understand the evolutionary function of #strigolactones as rhizosphere signalling molecules

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Here comes Aino! Congratulations 🎉 #Marchantia

Innovative Neutron Breeding Technology Set to Generate Mutants in Marchantia Polymorpha Quantum Flowers & Foods starts commissioned research to create mutants using innovative neutron breeding technology on the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, aiming for diverse applications.

Innovative Neutron Breeding Technology Set to Generate Mutants in Marchantia Polymorpha #Japan #Mito #Quantum_Flowers #Neutron_Breeding #Marchantia

[Important notice] To maintain nomenclature consistent and systematic, we strongly recommend that gene names/symbols should be registered before publications and presentations.

📢 New publication 'MarpolBase: #genome database for #Marchantia polymorpha featuring high quality reference genome sequences' by Yasuhiro Tanizawa et al. in Plant and Cell Physiology 🧪🧬

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#liverwort

Addgene: OpenPlant Kit Use the OpenPlant toolkit for genetic engineering of the plant synthetic biology model Marchantia polymorpha.

The OpenPlant kit is finally available from Addgene as... a kit :)
www.addgene.org/kits/haselof...
@addgene.bsky.social #marchantia #synbio

From plants to neurons? Never underestimate our green fellows for what they can teach us! #marchantia #autophagy #evolution

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

🚄 Advance Access 🚄

#Marchantia polymorpha FERONIA and MARIS mutants reveal a link between cell wall integrity and ABA responses

T.O. Jobe, C.G. Litholdo Junior, S.C. Stolze, L. Stephan, J. Westermann, A. Harzen, M. Hülskamp, H. Nakagami, A. Boisson-Dernier

#OpenAccess

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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

Having fun with the microscope lately. Here’s one of my favourite artsy and slightly psychedelic shots of #Marchantia chloroplasts and a fluorescent membrane reporter. (z-stack maximum projection)

Salicylic Acid and the unique TGA transcription factor controls plant immunity against Pseudomonas syringae in Marchantia polymorpha ABSTRACT. Land plants have co-evolved with microorganisms since its transition to a terrestrial habitat around 500 million years ago. In angiosperms, salic

Salicylic Acid and the unique TGA transcription factor controls plant immunity against Pseudomonas syringae in Marchantia polymorpha

#Marchantia #EvoMPMI

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MarpolBase
#Marchantia

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A new @newphyt.bsky.social Profile, this time on Roberto Solano:

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Interesting as always 👍

#PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Marchantia

Another paper showing that the fungus Trichoderma associates with #Marchantia in a natural environment! 😎

The life of a plant scientist… In order of magnification: me taking some #Marchantia from my courtyard, the picture I took in that very moment, and the microscopy image of that sample sectioned through a gemma cup. Turquoise: chlorophyll, yellow: WGA-FITC (binds chitin of e.g. fungi)!

To investigate how Exo70s underwent extreme diversification without compromising the role of complex, we used the powerful 🌱 model #Marchantia, which has only 3 Exo70 paralogs (Exo70I, II and III).

We turned to #Marchantia, which encodes only 3 Exo70 isoforms (Arabidopsis has 23!). Importantly this 3 still representa the key evolutionary branches of Exo70 tree.

Cell wall‐related glycosyltransferases and wall architecture in the model liverwort Marchantia polymorpha M. polymorpha's low genetic redundancy makes it an attractive model to unravel the complex processes of cell wall biosynthesis. This study adds to the growing knowledge of the cell wall structure of ....

📢 New publication 'Cell wall-related glycosyltransferases and wall architecture in the model #liverwort #Marchantia polymorpha' by Hee Sung Kang et al. in The Plant Journal 🧪

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A tRNA-gRNA multiplexing system for CRISPR genome editing in Marchantia polymorpha Abstract. The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha is a widely used model organism for studying land plant biology, which has also proven to be a promising test

Glad to see Eftychis CRISPR multiplexing pipeline published now in Journal of Experimental Botany #plantsciences #marchantia academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

The MpANT‐Auxin Loop Modulates Marchantia polymorpha Development AINTEGUMENTA-LIKE/PLETHORA/BABYBOOM (APB) genes are considered part of the ancestral developmental toolkit in land plants. In Arabidopsis thaliana, these transcription factors are induced by auxin an....

📢 New publication 'The MpANT- #Auxin Loop Modulates #Marchantia polymorpha Development' by Melissa Dipp-Álvarez et al. in Physiologia Plantarum 🧪

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small insight for #Marchantia lovers

MpICS has weak activity (Fig.2B)

Conservation and divergence of UVR8-COP1/SPA-HY5 signaling in UV-B responses of Marchantia polymorpha Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B) poses a major challenge to all forms of plant life. The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha (Marchantia) serves as a key model organism to study signaling pathways and to in...

Happy to share this work we did together with @yuankeliang.bsky.social in @romanulm.bsky.social lab. We looked in detail at UVR8-mediated UV-B signaling in Marchantia and found some conserved functions but also a few surprises! #plantscience #marchantia #UVR8

With over 800 posters at #2025ISMPMI it might be tricky to find me. But here’s a little helping video.

Come today (Wednesday) between 13:30 and 15:15 to Poster P-425 to hear about #Marchantia #Phytophthora interaction and a GRAS transcription factor!

Are you interested in RKs, #EvoMPMI in land plants, #Marchantia or all of the above?
Come see @chia-nan.bsky.social's poster today at #2025ISMPMI to find out about our project on MpBIR and plant immunity!

Involvement of a NIMA-related kinase in cell division of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha Abstract. Never-in-mitosis A (NIMA)-related kinases (NEKs) regulate a series of mitotic events in fungi and animals, whereas plant NEKs have been shown to

Plants go NE(c)K and NE(c)K with animals & fungi...

Mase et al functionally characterise a sole #Marchantia NEK kinase, thought to determine growth direction in plants, & identified its role in meristematic cell division control (similar to animals & fungi)
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#PlantScience

We @mpipz.bsky.social had insightful talk by Takayuki Kohchi on sex determination mechanisms in liverworts. #Marchantia

Had a lovely time at the #FestivalofPlants @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social on Saturday showcasing our research @slcuplants.bsky.social. Spot me at the stereoscope looking at flowers and of course #Marchantia!

Video credit: Kathy Grube from SLCU.

Darius standing in front of a poster with the title “power to the flower” at the Chelsea Flower Show.

Marchantia polymorpha plants in two different containers. One with sexual reproductive organs (little umbrellas on the right).

A bee flying into a foxglove plant on the SLCU pollinator patch.

Visitors of the Chelsea flower show in conversation with scientists from SLCU in front of the pollinator patch.

A real joy to represent @slcuplants.bsky.social & @dromius.bsky.social’s research group at the #ChelseaFlowerShow today! Got to tell many plant enthusiasts about our research into plant-microbe interactions and why #Marchantia is a cool model. Also, our pollinator patch was liked by bees and people!

Liverworts and lycophytes growing together in the Cambridge University Botanical Garden

And my UK tour continued to Cambridge! Thanks @fromani.bsky.social, @alanwanke.bsky.social and @dromius.bsky.social for hosting me and for the nice discussions about life and science #Marchantia #EvoMPMI