Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of plant self-defense in wood in a 360-million-year-old fossil from south-eastern Ireland. Plants can protect their wood from infection and water loss by ...

Microscopic observation of a section of Devonian fossil wood containing tyloses and detail of an area showing several tyloses (arrows) produced by parenchyma cells (P) inside a conductor cell (C); ...

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