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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

Brigitte Meyer-BerthaudAMAP, CNRS, CIRAD, INRA, IRD, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, FranceCorrespondence[email protected]
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Philippe GerriennePalaeobiogeology-Palaeobotany-Palaeopalynology, Department of Geology, University of Liège, Liège, BelgiumView further author information
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Cyrille PrestianniRoyal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, O.D. Earth and History of Life, Brussels, BelgiumView further author information
Pages 434-439 | Received 27 Jun 2018, Accepted 25 Jul 2018, Published online: 22 Aug 2018

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