School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Curr Top Dev Biol. 2022;147:1-32. doi: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2021.12.009. Epub 2022 Feb 28.
The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha has been known to man for millennia due to its inclusion Greek herbals. Perhaps due to its familiarity and association with growth in, often, man-made disturbed habitats, it was readily used to address fundamental biological questions of the day, including elucidation of land plant life cycles in the late 18th century, the formulation of cell theory early in the 19th century and the discovery of the alternation of generations in land plants in the mid-19th century. Subsequently, Marchantia was used as model in botany classes. With the arrival of the molecular era, its organellar genomes, the chloroplast and mitochondrial, were some of the first to be sequenced from any plant. In the past two decades, molecular genetic tools have been applied such that genes may be manipulated seemingly at will. Here, are past, present, and some views to the future of Marchantia as a model.
地钱作为一种苔藓植物，因其被收录于古希腊草本志中，而为人所知已逾千年。或许是因为地钱较为常见，且常生长在人为干扰的栖息地中，所以它很早就被用于解决当时一些基本的生物学问题，包括 18 世纪末期阐明陆地植物的生命周期、19 世纪早期提出的细胞理论，以及 19 世纪中期发现陆地植物世代交替现象。之后，地钱被用于植物学课堂的教学模型。随着分子时代的到来，其细胞器基因组——叶绿体和线粒体——成为最早被测序的植物基因组之一。在过去的二十年中，应用分子遗传学工具，似乎可以随心所欲地操控基因。本文对地钱作为一种模式生物的过去、现在和未来进行了综述。
