The physiological resilience of fern sporophytes and gametophytes: advances in water relations offer new insights into an old lineage
Ferns are some of the oldest vascular plants in existence and they are the second most diverse lineage of tracheophytes next to angiosperms. Recent efforts to understand fern success have fo-cused on the physiological capacity and stress tolerance of both the sporophyte and the gameto-phyte generati...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-08-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Plant Science |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2013.00285/full |