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🔬 Takeaway: The evolution of vascular systems in early seed plants was far more complex than previously thought, involving multiple adaptive modifications and transitional stages. Ancient plant evolution was anything but simple. 🌱 (9/9)

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Shoot apical meristem and initial vascular development of a late Palaeozoic spermatophyte (order Medullosales)

AbstractBackground and Aims. The medullosans are ancient spermatophytes (order Medullosales) with an unusual stem anatomy and have been studied extensively

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Annals of Botany Feb 24

🌿Check the newly published article “Shoot apical meristem and initial vascular development of a late Palaeozoic spermatophyte (order Medullosales)” in @AnnBot by Lydéric Portailler & Ludwig Luthardt. (1/9)

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Annals of Botany Sep 25

🌦️But why did some groups spread and others disappear during the Neogene? The study points to possible links with changing monsoon climates, but the full story remains a mystery waiting to be uncovered. (6/6)

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Persistence of Gondwanan woods in Myanmar through the Palaeogene

AbstractBackground and Aims. Many plant taxa of the tropical forests of South and Southeast Asia have been proposed to have Gondwanan ancestors. One signif

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Annals of Botany Sep 25

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Persistence of Gondwanan woods in Myanmar through the Paleogene’ in @AnnBot by Nicolas Gentis and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/6)

👉 https://doi.org/p6mt

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