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Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab

Enjoying fern and lycophyte diversity , and studying diverse evolutionary issues of these plants.

Joined November 2021
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IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所)@IPMBSinica
8 Sep 2025
[@IPMBSinica Seminar] 2025-09-22 15:00; A134, Ag Tech Bldg Speaker：Dr. Li-Yaung Kuo 郭立園 @KuoFernLab Title：Reproductive “isolation” on fern leaves: Evolution of dimorphic syndromes in the genus Tectaria
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#FernFriday HupA, a famous pharmacologically alkaloid from Huperzioideae lycophytes. In our paper earlier this year, fungal metabarcoding also identified putative trans-microorganisms for HupA cosynthesis! Very happy to see these new findings published! frontiersin.org/journals/pla…

Frontiers | Phyllosphere mycobiome in two Lycopodiaceae plant species: unraveling potential...

Huperzine A (HupA), a lycopodium alkaloid with therapeutic potential for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, is found exclusively in some...

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Before this #FernFriday vacation in Taiwan, we had a productive week for pteridologists, with interesting fern talks, discussions, and fieldwork! New fern spore projects, cool Hymenasplenium gametophytes, new HGTs in fern plastomes, & one more time for Tectaria leaf dimorphism!
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#FernFriday Had a great week with Yone @yoneoka1915hap in the field! We successfully collected seven Hymenasplenium spp. in Taiwan for the exciting fern gametophyte project. Looking forward to seeing the results from these fascinating materials soon!
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#FernFriday Just DNA-confirmed that these whitish, coral-like organisms are indeed gametophytes of Ophioderma—the epiphytic Adder’s tongue ferns! Super exciting this time finding even more mysterious myco-heterophytic fern gametophytes!
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Li-Yaung Kuo retweeted
Dr Timothy Utteridge@timutteridge
9 May 2025
Ferns!!! Biologists create a one-stop shop for world’s most charismatic plants floridamuseum.ufl.edu/scienc…

Biologists create a one-stop shop for world’s most charismatic plants

The Florida Museum of Natural History has partnered with 35 herbarium collections across the United States to create a web portal for ferns. Wait! Hear me out. You’re probably thinking, “Ferns? The...

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Just in time for #FernFriday- Yun, our first master student working on Adder’s ferns has successfully defended her thesis! She’ll be sharing more fascinating stories about mixotrophy of Ophioglossum soon!
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#FernFriday Pre-lecture investigations to find suitable field sites for our coming Fern Systematics course. > 100 spp. in one trail! & a new fern dish (first time time test a Pteris)
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Fay-Wei Li 李飛葦@fern_way
10 Apr 2025
Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/ferns
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#FernFriday Very happy to have this opportunity giving a fern talk at Life Science Department of NTU—the campus where my pteridology journey began! Once thought the topic of independent fern gametophytes might not excite new generation, but I was wrong!
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Finally, we found this hybrid again in the field-- Tectaria membranacea × subtriphylla, with it parents! Congratulation to You-Wun's Tectaria talk! #FernFriday
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A #FernFriday for young pteridologist, Nai, and his artist friend in our lab fernery!
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#FernFriday several ferntastic activities indoor and outdoor! Gametophyte finding by three generations of Lomario-pteridologists, exciting project staring from Taiwanese fern collections in KBCC, rge new book by @fern_way et al. in press!
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#FernFriday We just announced a new fern special issue in NZJB! Welcome manuscripts investigating insular diversity and reticulate evolution of Paleotropical ferns! royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzj…

The New Zealand Journal of Botany (NZJB) call for papers: Special Issue on insular diversity and...

The New Zealand Journal of Botany (NZJB) is currently inviting submissions for a Special Issue titled "Insular diversity and reticulate evolution of Paleotropical ferns." This issue seeks to highli...

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Li-Yaung Kuo retweeted
New Phytologist@NewPhyt
7 Feb 2025
Clonal gametophyte population genomics Pelosi et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
Sampling of Vittaria appalachiana.

ALT Sampling of Vittaria appalachiana.

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#FernFriday Just completed the last thesis defense of interesting fern topics this semester! Congratulation to young pterido-bioinformatist, pterido-entomologist @ZongYuShen, and pterido-mycologist!
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Thank all your invitations and joins! @tzutongkao @YuHsinTseng1 Koko @airbugshuang et al.
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#FernFriday Our annual activity of digging underground gametophytes of Sceptridium ferns, this time with some fresh hands! Surprisingly, the undergraduate Diya found the largest one we had ever seen, nearly 3 cm!
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Li-Yaung Kuo retweeted
Trevor Padgett@TrevorCPadgett
19 Dec 2024
In our second episode, we take you to the forest floor and the treetops to explore epiphytic and ground ferns, and get to see and taste their beauty! #BotanicalWonders #Taiwan taiwanplus.com/shows/nature/…

Why Are There So Many Types of Fern in Taiwan? - Botanical Wonders Ep2 - TaiwanPlus

Taiwan is home to more than 700 types of ferns with more kinds than North America and Europe combined. Learn about this prehistoric plant and why Taiwan is such a great place to find it in this...

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#FernFriday Finally, our DNA barcodes of 1.5 K Asian fern collections were published in Scientific Data! Notably, we have new NGS ways to boost fern barcoding works. More about our wet and dry pipelines are provided in the paper! doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-0…
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Thank all co-authored fern experts & data scientists! S-K Tang, Y-H Huang, @xiepeijun6, C-Wei Chen, Z-X Chang, T-CHsu, Y-H Chang, Y-S Chao, C-Wen Chen, @fawcett_susan, @joel_nitta, @MichaelSundue, @tzutongkao, H T Luu, A M A Mustapeng, FP Coritico, VB Amoroso, YK Thai
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