The nature and evolutionary relationships of the earliest land plants

New Phytologist

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-3

  Wellman, Charles H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptophytes; Cryptospores; Early land plants; Embryophytes; Rhyniophytes; Trilete spores

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL SPORE; BIODIVERSITY; CRYPTOPHYTA; CRYPTOSPORES; EARLY LAND PLANTS; EDITORIAL; EMBRYOPHYTA; PHYSIOLOGY; RHYNIOPHYTES; TRILETE SPORES;

CRYPTOPHYTES; CRYPTOSPORES; EARLY LAND PLANTS; EMBRYOPHYTES; RHYNIOPHYTES; TRILETE SPORES;

BIODIVERSITY; CRYPTOPHYTA; SPORES;

EID: 84894421614     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12670     Document Type: Editorial

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