Transformative Paleobotany

Section I: Early land plants: Innovations and adaptations 1. The evolutionary origin of the plant spore in relation to the anithetic origin of the plant sporophyte 2. The changing function of plant cuticles during the Paleozoic 3. Elucidating the relationships of the earliest euphyllophytes: Insights from the Early and Middle Devonian 4. Early trees 5. Diversity of early embryophytes in the UK 6. What does the Devonian tell us about plant homologies? Section II: Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic plants and floras 7. Stratigraphic ranges of major plant taxa in the latest Pennsylvanian and early Permian of north-central Texas 8. Permian ginkgophytes of Angaraland 9. Glossopterid plant remains in perminerization: what do they tell us? 10. Palaeoecology of a latest Permian glossopterid mire: The Homevale permineralized peat of northeastern Australia 11. A Triassic mystery solved: Fertile Pekinopteris from North Carolina,USA 12. Enigmatic fern-like plants from the Triassic of central Europe Section III: Paleobiogeography, biology, and phylogenetic relationships of plants 13. Integrative studies on the fossil record of cryptogramic plants using phylogenetic frameworks 14. Contemporary perspectives on the pollen biology of fossil plants 15. Paleobiogeographic distribution, evolution, and phylogenetic pattern of marattialean ferns through time 16. Permineralized floras of China 17. Bryophyte taphonomy 18. Early Cretaceous flowers and the early history of monocots 19. Winged fruits and seeds and their significance in assessing fossil flora Section IV: Fossil microorganisms 20. Endosymbiotic microbes and their roles in the evolution of plants and animals 21. How similar are ancient arbuscular fungal associations and associated spores to their modern equivalents? 22. Increasing the resolution in the Early Devonian Rhynie chert: A microfungal parasite of enigmatic spores in microbial mats 23. Fossil fungi preserved in ginkgophyte wood from the Permian of China 24. Morphological convergence in forest microfungi provides a proxy for Paleogene forest structure 25. The paleoecologic significance of plant-microbial interactions: new insights from geochemistry and paleobotany 26. On Ediacarans, protolichens, and lichen-derived Penicillium: A critical reassessment of the evolution of lichenization in fungi Section V: Antarctic paleobotany 27. Past polar forests as refugia for relict plant groups 28. Paleophysiology of Antarctic plants 29. Secondary growth, branching, and biomechanics of Vertebraria roots 30. Endochaetophora, a paleomycological mystery revisited 31. Antarctic-Patagonian Plant Diversity during the Cretaceous-Tertiary