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Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volume 72, 2021

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Abstract

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, offering a significant advantage in conducting genetics. Owing to its low genetic redundancy and the availability of an array of versatile molecular tools, including efficient genome editing, the liverwort has become a model organism of choice that provides clues to the mechanisms underlying eco-evo-devo biology in plants. Recent analyses of developmental mutants have revealed that key genes in developmental processes are functionally well conserved in plants, despite their morphological differences, and that lineage-specific evolution occurred by neo/subfunctionalization of common ancestral genes. We suggest that is an excellent platform to uncover the conserved and diversified mechanisms underlying land plant development.

Keyword(s): bryophytes, evolution, Marchantia polymorpha, model organism, molecular genetics, plant development
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Development and Molecular Genetics of Marchantia polymorpha
Annual Review of Plant Biology 72, 677 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-arplant-082520-094256
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  • Supplemental Video 1: Growth of Marchantia polymorpha (female). Pictures were taken for 50 days, 1 picture/hour, starting from 28-day-old thalli. The whole sequence was compressed to 25 sec. Far-red light was added to 56-day-old thalli, which appears as ‘jumping’ at the tips of thalli. Female sexual organs (archegoniophores) grow upward after irradiation of far-red light. (Video produced by R. Nishihama and T. Kohchi, Kyoto University)

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