Marchantia polymorpha

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Last updated: Apr 25, 2022

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Scientific name: Marchantia polymorpha

Common name(s): common liverwort

Name as shown in Phylogenes: common liverwort

Ploidy: haploid

Description:

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): 

  1. 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: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.09.030.  

Genome Database(s): 

MarpolBase