Shohei Yamaoka

This study identifies MpSABATH2 in liverwort Marchantia polymorpha as essential for development, linking it to gibberellin metabolism and showing convergent evolution of SABATH functions in land plants.

MarpolBase provides high-quality reference genomes for Marchantia polymorpha and offers tools for genome analysis and gene nomenclature.

This study identifies MpCKI1 as a conserved two-component signaling component required for female germline specification in Marchantia polymorpha.

The paper shows that KNOX/BELL transcription factors in Marchantia polymorpha initiate zygotic development similarly to Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, suggesting zygote activation is the ancestral role of these factors.

The paper analyzes chromatin organization in the early land plant Marchantia polymorpha, revealing an ancestral role of H3K27me3 in transposon silencing and heterochromatin formation.