Comparative ultrastructure of plasmodesmata of Chara and selected bryophytes: Toward an elucidation of the evolutionary origin of plant plasmodesmata

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1169-1178

  Cook, Martha E ^a,c   Graham, Linda E ^a   Botha, C E J ^b   Lavin, Colleen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Chara; Charophycean algae; Monoclea; Notothylas; Plant evolution; Plasmodesmata; Sphagnum

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTE; EVOLUTION; PLANT PLASMODESMATA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CHARA; CHARA ZEYLANICA; CHARALES; CHLOROPHYTA; MONOCLEA; MONOCLEA GOTTSCHEI; NOTOTHYLAS; NOTOTHYLAS ORBICULARIS; SPERMATOPHYTA; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM FIMBRIATUM;

EID: 0030886692     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2446040     Document Type: Article

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