Li-Yaung Kuo
@KuoFernLab
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Enjoying fern and lycophyte diversity , and studying diverse evolutionary issues of these plants.
Joined November 2021
[@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! https://t.co/lg14SWoRLK
frontiersin.org
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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Ferns!!! Biologists create a one-stop shop for world’s most charismatic plants https://t.co/99GgKnTLBi
floridamuseum.ufl.edu
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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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: https://t.co/WKJWhspTUb
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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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#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
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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#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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#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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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
https://t.co/jreRfkiFOX
taiwanplus.com
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 fi
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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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