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The origin of land plants: a matter of mycotrophism.

K. Pirozynski, D. Malloch

1975.3.1BIOSYSTEMS

DOI: 10.1016/0303-2647(75)90023-4

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It is hypothesized that terrestrial plants are the product of an ancient and continuing symbiosis of a semi-aquatic ancestral green alga and an aquatic fungus-an oomycete that were equipped to cope with the problems of desiccation and starvation associated with terrestrial existence.

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PIROZYNSKI, K.; MALLOCH, D. The origin of land plants: A matter of mycotrophism. BIOSYSTEMS, 1975, 6 3(3): 153–64.