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land plant

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The guide includes fine watercolor paintings and line drawings of each species of land plant and seagrass, maps, satellite images, a glossary, and index by species.
The contract covered civil works, foundations and construction of various process buildings at the land plant on Melkoya island outside Hammerfest in northern Norway, Statoil said.
Among their topics are evidence from the fossil records of fungal endophytes as a driving force in land plant evolution, arbuscular mycorrhizae and grassland ecosystems, fungi and leaf surfaces, fungal influence on plant tolerance to stress, and defining complex interactions between plants and fungi.
Washington, June 7 (ANI): Scientists have produced revolutionary global maps of land plant fluorescence - the difficult-to-detect reddish glow that leaves emit as a byproduct of photosynthesis.
A review of Sluiman's cladistic classification of green plants with particular reference to flagella data and to land plant origins.
A NASA research group led by Marc Imhoff at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, first quantified this global consumption in 2004, when the group found that in 1995 humans consumed 20 percent of all the land plant material produced that year.
Previous research found land plant productivity was on the rise.
In the south, only intermediate levels of extinction occurred and greater diversity persisted, which agrees with the minor land plant changes in the Southern Hemisphere.
Most soils have so-called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which grip roots and boost nutrients for an estimated 80 percent of land plant species.
Washington, December 9 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have analyzed land plant fossils to show that the Paleoasian Ocean disappeared about 251 million years ago.
At that time, the angiosperms or flowering plants -- a group that includes grasses and deciduous trees -- were starting to compete seriously with the more established type of land plant called gymnosperms, which includes coniferous trees.
It is probable that no land plant completes its life cycle without a switch at one point or another to this microtubule cycle.