Plant–fungi interactions in Marchantia polymorpha are associated with horizontal gene transfer and terpene metabolism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 6, February 2026. <br/>SignificanceThe study of plant immunity has predominantly focused on flowering plants, nonvascular plants being largely unexplored. Here, we find immune mechanisms operating in the nonvascular plant model Marchantia by comparing the genomes and immune …