Cryptospores and the Origin of Land Plants

Recent Research

Taylor, W.A. & Paul K. Strother. 2024. Plant evolution: A tapetum is now effectively found in all plant lineages. Current Biology, 34 (4) PR146-R148.


Strother, P.K. 2023. An evo-devo perspective on no Ordovician land plants. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 2023, 72, 1, 102–105  https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2023.31


McCourt, Richard M., Louise A. Lewis, Paul K. Strother, Charles F. Delwiche, Norman J. Wickett, Jan de Vries & John L. Bowman. 2023. Green land: multiple perspectives on green algal evolution and the earliest land plants. American Journal of Botany. Doi:10.1002/ajb2.16175


Strother, Paul K. & Clinton Foster. 2021. A fossil record of land plant origins from charophyte algae. Science 373 (6556), 792-796. doi: 10.1126/science.abj2927