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Fossil evidence of tylosis formation in Late Devonian plants.

Anne-Laure DecombeixCarla J HarperCyrille PrestianniThibault DurieuxMerlin RamelMichael Krings
Published in: Nature plants (2023)
Tyloses are swellings of parenchyma cells into adjacent water-conducting cells that develop in vascular plants as part of heartwood formation or specifically in response to embolism and pathogen infection. Here we document tyloses in Late Devonian (approximately 360 Myr ago) Callixylon wood. This discovery suggests that some of the earliest woody trees were already capable of protecting their vascular system by occluding individual conducting cells.
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