Paleoecology, Ploidy, Paleoatmospheric Composition, and Developmental Biology: A Review of the Multiple Uses of Fossil Stomata
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Margret Steinthorsdottir; Jennifer C. McElwain
- Source
- Plant Physiology. 174:650-664
- Subject
- 0106 biological sciences
Physiology
Plant Development
Plant Science
Environment
Biology
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
01 natural sciences
stomatognathic system
Botany
Genetics
Plant Physiological Phenomena
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Ploidies
Fossil Record
Ecology
Atmosphere
Fossils
fungi
Paleontology
food and beverages
social sciences
Plants
Plant Stomata
Paleoecology
Ploidy
Developmental biology
UPDATES - FOCUS ISSUE
Developmental Biology
010606 plant biology & botany
- Language
- ISSN
- 1532-2548
0032-0889
The presence of stomata is a diagnostic trait of all living and extinct land plants with the exception of liverworts. They are preserved widely in the fossil record from anatomically pristine stomatal complexes on permineralized and charcoalified stems of the earliest land plants dating back >400