Scientific name: Marchantia polymorpha
Common name(s): common liverwort
Name as shown in Phylogenes: common liverwort
Ploidy: Diploid haploid
Description:
Amborella trichopoda is a small, vascular land plant that is endemic to the South Pacific Islands of New Caledonia.
M. polymorpha is basal to the most simple and leafy liverwort lineages and its genome is essential for investigating fundamental events in land-plant evolution. It represents a widely distributed common liverwort that has a multicellular haploid gametophyte generation that alternates with a multicellular diploid sporophyte generation.
Reference(s):
- Amborella Genome Project. The Amborella genome and the evolution of flowering plants. Science. 2013 Dec 20;342(6165):1241089
Bowman JL, et al. Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome. Cell.2017 Oct 5;171(2):287-304.e15. doi: 10.
1126/science.1241089.
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