Land Plant Model Systems Branch Out

Charles F Delwiche; Charles A Goodman; Caren Chang

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2017.09.036

Land Plant Model Systems Branch Out

Cell. 2017 Oct 5;171(2):265-266. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.09.036.

Authors

Charles F Delwiche¹, Charles A Goodman², Caren Chang²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. Electronic address: delwiche@umd.edu.
² Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

PMID: 28985556
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.09.036

Abstract

The genome of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha is an important step toward development of a new plant model system (Bowman et al., 2017). Liverworts may be the sister taxon to all other land plants, and the genome shows features that illuminate the ancestor of all land plants and give insights into how plant systems function and evolved.

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MeSH terms

Embryophyta*
Marchantia / genetics*
Plants