Endophytic cyanobacteria in a 400-million-yr-old land plant: A scenario for the origin of a symbiosis?

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 153, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 62-69

  Krings, Michael ^a,b   Hass, Hagen ^c   Kerp, Hans ^c   Taylor, Thomas N ^b   Agerer, Reinhard ^a   Dotzler, Nora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Dept of Ecol Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aglaophyton major; Archaeothrix; association; cyanobacterial filament; mutualism; mycorrhiza; Pragian ?earliest Emsian (Early Devonian); Rhynie chert; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

CHERT; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEVONIAN; ENDOPHYTE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT; STOMATA; SYMBIOSIS;

AGLAOPHYTON MAJOR; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; PRAGIA;

EID: 56449097427     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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