The renaissance and enlightenment of Marchantia as a model system

JL Bowman, M Arteaga-Vazquez, F Berger… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has been utilized as a model for biological studies
since the 18th century. In the past few decades, there has been a Renaissance in its …

The evolution of microRNAs in plants

J Cui, C You, X Chen - Current opinion in plant biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Most miRNAs are lineage-specific.•MIR genes evolve rapidly and show much
divergence.•MIR genes may keep originating from target genes.•miRNA–target pairs may co …

Insights into land plant evolution garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha genome

JL Bowman, T Kohchi, KT Yamato, J Jenkins, S Shu… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
The evolution of land flora transformed the terrestrial environment. Land plants evolved from
an ancestral charophycean alga from which they inherited developmental, biochemical, and …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin organization in early land plants reveals an ancestral association between H3K27me3, transposons, and constitutive heterochromatin

SA Montgomery, Y Tanizawa, B Galik, N Wang, T Ito… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Genome packaging by nucleosomes is a hallmark of eukaryotes. Histones and the pathways
that deposit, remove, and read histone modifications are deeply conserved. Yet, we lack …

Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing and its application to conditional genetic analysis in Marchantia polymorpha

SS Sugano, R Nishihama, M Shirakawa, J Takagi… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Marchantia polymorpha is one of the model species of basal land plants. Although
CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing has already been demonstrated for this plant, the …

The Emergence, Evolution, and Diversification of the miR390-TAS3-ARF Pathway in Land Plants

R Xia, J Xu, BC Meyers - The Plant Cell, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In plants, miR390 directs the production of tasiRNAs from TRANS-ACTING SIRNA3 (TAS3)
transcripts to regulate AUXIN RESPONSIVE FACTOR (ARF) genes, critical for auxin …

Conservation and divergence of small RNA pathways and microRNAs in land plants

C You, J Cui, H Wang, X Qi, LY Kuo, H Ma, L Gao… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Background As key regulators of gene expression in eukaryotes, small RNAs have been
characterized in many seed plants, and pathways for their biogenesis, degradation, and …

Marchantia TCP transcription factor activity correlates with three-dimensional chromatin structure

ES Karaaslan, N Wang, N Faiss, Y Liang… - Nature Plants, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Information in the genome is not only encoded within sequence or epigenetic
modifications, but is also found in how it folds in three-dimensional space. The formation of …

Class C ARFs evolved before the origin of land plants and antagonize differentiation and developmental transitions in Marchantia polymorpha

E Flores‐Sandoval, DM Eklund, SF Hong… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A plethora of developmental and physiological processes in land plants is influenced by
auxin, to a large extent via alterations in gene expression by AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR s …

Investigating the viral suppressor HC-pro inhibiting small RNA methylation through functional comparison of HEN1 in angiosperm and bryophyte

N Sanobar, PC Lin, ZJ Pan, RY Fang, V Tjita, FF Chen… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
In plants, HEN1-facilitated methylation at 3′ end ribose is a critical step of small-RNA
(sRNA) biogenesis. A mutant of well-studied Arabidopsis HEN1 (AtHEN1), hen1-1, showed …