“DEVELOPMENTAL CONSTRAINTS are important to body plan evolution. For plants, one of the most obvious of these is the phyletic legacy of a cell wall, which evolved independently many times among the various plant lineages and whose mode of deposition and material properties profoundly influence how cell size and shape are free to change.”
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022