Li-Yaung Kuo

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

[IPMB Academia Sinica (中研院植微所) @IPMBSinica]

[@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

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

#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

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

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!

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

#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!

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

#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!

[Dr Timothy Utteridge @timutteridge]

Ferns!!!
Biologists create a one-stop shop for world’s most charismatic plants
https://t.co/99GgKnTLBi

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

@yoneoka1915hap I will introduce one in Taiwan!

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

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!

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

#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)

[Fay-Wei Li 李飛葦 @fern_way]

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

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

#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!

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

Finally, we found this hybrid again in the field-- Tectaria membranacea × subtriphylla, with it parents! Congratulation to You-Wun's Tectaria talk! #FernFriday

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

A #FernFriday for young pteridologist, Nai, and his artist friend in our lab fernery!

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

@_fernmin @fern_way I think so! https://t.co/2WFBihGSvm

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

#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!

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

#FernFriday We just announced a new fern special issue in NZJB! Welcome manuscripts investigating insular diversity and reticulate evolution of Paleotropical ferns! https://t.co/Jibp6A3J3C

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

Clonal gametophyte population genomics

Pelosi et al.

📖 https://t.co/0iKtHlMY4y

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

Thank all your invitations and joins! @tzutongkao @YuHsinTseng1 Koko @airbugshuang et al.

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

#FernFriday Just completed the last thesis defense of interesting fern topics this semester! Congratulation to young pterido-bioinformatist, pterido-entomologist @ZongYuShen, and pterido-mycologist!

[Li-Yaung Kuo @KuoFernLab]

#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!