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Writing a comprehensive story about stem evaluation is difficult because evidence of only few early plants has been preserved over millions of years. Samples exist of plants which were fossilized under anaerobic conditions, enclosed in resin (amber) or carbonized. The majority of plants from sites with aerobic soil conditions are not preserved.
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Schweingruber, F.H., Börner, A. (2018). Evolution of stems. In: The Plant Stem. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73524-5_8
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