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Independent origins of syringyl lignin in vascular plants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 3 Jun 2008
Weng Jing-Ke, Li Xu, Stout Jake, Chapple Clint
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Lycophytes arose in the early Silurian ( approximately 400 Mya) and represent a major lineage of vascular plants that has evolved in parallel with the ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. A hallmark of vascular plants is the presence of the phenolic lignin heteropolymer in xylem and other sclerif...
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