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A 350‐million‐year legacy of fire adaptation among conifers

2016-03-01

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Current phylogenetic evidence shows that fire began shaping the evolution of land plants 125 Ma, although the fossil charcoal record indicates that fire has a much longer history (>350 Ma). Serotiny (on‐plant seed storage) is generally accepted as an adaptation to fire among woody plants. We developed a conceptual model of the requirements for the evolution of serotiny, and propose that serotiny is only expressed...

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Literature Corpus work: b56f958f-a2b1-5fc3-b9a1-38954354d9f1
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12513

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