Ferns: The missing link in shoot evolution and development

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue NOVEMBER, 2015, Pages

  Plackett, Andrew R G ^a   Di Stilio, Verónica S ^b   Langdale, Jane A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceratopteris; Development; Evolution; Fern; Monilophyte; Plant; Shoot

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947596332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00972     Document Type: Review

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