Research in this laboratory focuses on the adaptive regulation of growth and development to environmental conditions and its evolution by using model photosynthetic organisms. Especially with the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, which is a basal land plant ideal for comparative evolutionary studies and amenable to molecular genetic manipulation, we aim to elucidate principles and ancestral molecular mechanisms of photomorphogenesis, growth phase transition, phytohormone signaling, meristem function, cell division, and cell differentiation in land plants.

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