Letters to the twenty-first century botanist. Second series: “what is a seed?”–3. How did we get there? Palaeobotany sheds light on the emergence of seed
Meyer-Berthaud, B.; AMAP, CNRS, CIRAD, INRA, IRD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Gerrienne, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géologie > Evolution and diversity dynamics lab
Prestianni, Cyrille ; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O.D. Earth and History of Life, Brussels, Belgium
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Letters to the twenty-first century botanist. Second series: “what is a seed?”–3. How did we get there? Palaeobotany sheds light on the emergence of seed
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