Ferns: A xylem success story

New Phytologist

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 307-310

  Mcelwain, Jennifer C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Angiosperms; Competition; Evolution; Ferns; Gymnosperms; Palaeoecology; Stomata; Tracheid morphology and function

Indexed keywords

CONIFER; FERN; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; XYLEM;

CONIFEROPHYTA; FERNS; XYLEM;

FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 80053254040     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03865.x     Document Type: Note

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