Issa Diop from the University of Zurich in Switzerland presented at London Calling 2021 on “Chromosomal-scale assembly of the liverwort Marchantia paleacea.” Diop discussed chloroplasts and endosymbionts before introducing Marchantia as a model of plant evolution. Marchantia has a haploid-dominant life cycle with a genome size of 280 Mbp. There are eight autosomes and 1 […]