A first comprehensive analysis of the Marchantia genome was published today in Cell. Marchantia is a thalloid liverwort, a representative of a lineage of land plants that is among the earliest diverging groups of land plants. The relationships among ‘bryophytes’ (i.e., haploid dominant land-plants, including liverworts, hornworts, and mosses) remains uncertain, but liverworts are a strong… Continue reading →