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SUBMITTER: Xue J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5003246 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xue Jinzhuang J Deng Zhenzhen Z Huang Pu P Huang Kangjun K Benton Michael J MJ Cui Ying Y Wang Deming D Liu Jianbo J Shen Bing B Basinger James F JF Hao Shougang S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160808 34
The colonization of terrestrial environments by rooted vascular plants had far-reaching impacts on the Earth system. However, the belowground structures of early vascular plants are rarely documented, and thus the plant-soil interactions in early terrestrial ecosystems are poorly understood. Here we report the earliest rooted paleosols (fossil soils) in Asia from Early Devonian deposits of Yunnan, China. Plant traces are extensive within the soil and occur as complex network-like structures, whi ...[more]