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The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha is fast becoming an important model system for understanding fundamental plant biology. However, despite its popularity, the most up-to-date reference genome assemblies have until now remained incomplete. Here, Boxall and Haseloff comment on the near complete telomere-to-telomere assemblies of the M. polymorpha subsp. ruderalis Tak-1and Tak-2 genomes housed in the web resource MarpolBase (https://marchantia.info), as featured in this issue of Plant and Cell Physiology (Tanizawa et al., 2026). In addition, they discuss how MarpolBase not only serves as the central hub for Marchantia genome information (including gene name registration), but also serves as a powerful platform that links the latest resources for further analyses of these data, such as homology-based search tools and gene expression datasets. As more data are added to this central resource, it is expected to promote the exponential growth and accessibility of Marchantia research within the plant research community.