Weld Hill Seminar Room, 1300 Centre St., Roslindale, MA
TItle: The structure, function, and evolution of the fern vascular system
Abstract: Nearly425 million years ago land plants evolved novel tissues to move water and sugar more efficiently through their body. These conducting tissues, xylem and phloem, amplified mass flow rates by orders of magnitude, allowing plants to increase their photosynthetic capacity, grow larger, and alter aspects of the terrestrial ecosystem including carbon dioxide modulation and increased oxygenation, in turn, profoundly affecting...
