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Mélanie K Rich1, Pierre-Marc Delaux1
1Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales (LRSV), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Castanet Tolosan, France.
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|June 10, 2020
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The quest for determining how the plants that first lived on land 450 million years ago looked is among the most exciting challenges in evolutionary biology. Recent work indicates that they displayed angiosperm-like stomata.
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