Transcriptomic and metabolomic profiling to unravel sex-dependent mechanisms and the role of exogenous glutathione in Marchantia polymorpha under cadmium stress
Xi Yang, Jiayi Zhang, Ling Zhan, Liwei Yi, Chunxia Guo, Pingping Yan, Xiaojie Bai, Li Wang · 2026
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Xi Yang and seven colleagues study how male and female liverworts handle cadmium poisoning, in a paper from two thousand twenty-six. Cadmium contaminates soils all over the world and puts plant health at risk. Sex-dependent tolerance in plants with separate sexes was barely understood till now. This team set out to close that gap in one test plant.
The plant was Marchantia polymorpha, an early land plant. Females took in far more cadmium than males did. They also had worse leaf yellowing and oxidative damage to show for it. Males held on to stronger antioxidant enzyme defenses through the stress. Gene expression and metabolite profiling found thousands of differences between the sexes under stress. The team also tested glutathione, a protective molecule put on from outside. Its remedial effects were mapped across both sexes in turn.
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| CREATOR | Xi Yang, Jiayi Zhang, Ling Zhan, Liwei Yi, Chunxia Guo, Pingping Yan, Xiaojie Bai, Li Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |