Networks of highly branched stigmarian rootlets developed on the first giant trees

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 6695-6700

  Hetherington, Alexander J ^a   Berry, Christopher M ^b   Dolan, Liam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carboniferous forests; Evolution; Isoetes; Paleobotany; Stigmarian root systems

Indexed keywords

COAL; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BRANCHLET; CARBONIFEROUS; FOSSIL; GENUS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STRUCTURES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROOT HAIR; ROOT MORPHOLOGY; ROOTING; SHOOT; STIGMARIAN ROOTLET SYSTEM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TREE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOME;

PLANT SHOOTS; RHIZOME; TREES;

EID: 84974696671     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1514427113     Document Type: Article

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