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ANNALS OF BOTANY
卷 91, 期 6, 页码 739-747出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcg068
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ecophysiology; Carboniferous; progymnosperm; lignophyte; Protopitys; tyloses; vessels; wood anatomy
Trunk woods of Early Carboniferous Protopitys buchiana show the earliest example of tylose formation and the first record for a progymnosperm. Protopitys tyloses are more densely located in inner trunk woods and near growth layer boundaries. We suggest, therefore, that an altered physiological state of living ray cells, during dormancy and/or following water stress, was necessary to make the woods vulnerable to tylose formation. Coupled with the distribution and proximity of abundant wood ray parenchyma to large xylem conducting cells, the positions of conduits filled with tyloses can be interpreted as ecophysiological responses of the plant to changes in local environment. In addition, some xylem conducting cells might have functioned as vessels. Fungal hyphae are present in some tracheary cells and in some areas with tyloses, but there is no evidence for wood trauma; we conclude, therefore, that these particular cases of tyloses are probably not induced by wound trauma. Protopitys buchiana wood thus shows structure/function similarities to modem woods with vessels, such as those of dicot angiosperms. This implies that ancient and modem plant ecophysiological responses correlate well with the physical parameters of their cellular construction. (C) 2003 Annals of Botany Company.
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