MarpolBase - Establishment and application of novel culture methods in Marchantia polymorpha- persistent tip growth is required for substrate penetration by rhizoids.

Establishment and application of novel culture methods in Marchantia polymorpha- persistent tip growth is required for substrate penetration by rhizoids.

Mase, H., et al. · 2022 · Communicative & Integrative Biology research

Gene ID	Name	Evidence / Role	Function (this paper)
—	MpNEK1 missing	experimental subject	NIMA-related protein kinase functionally studied here; Mpnek1 knockouts develop curly/spiral, highly crooked rhizoids with fluctuating growth direction and fail to penetrate solid medium. Concludes MpNEK1 stabilizes tip-growth direction via microtubule depolymerization in the apical dome, required for substrate penetration.
Mp7g06100	MpWDL	citation background	Cited as another microtubule regulator (WAVE DAMPENED-LIKE) that stabilizes longitudinal microtubules in the shank to regulate rhizoid tip growth; no experiments in this paper.