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A NOTE ON THE EVOLUTIONARY STATUS OF ALUMINIUM‐ACCUMULATORS AMONG DICOTYLEDONS
Author(s) -
CHENERY ERNEST M.,
SPORNE KENNETH R.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1976.tb01491.x
Subject(s) - aluminium , biology , fossil record , character (mathematics) , botany , ecology , evolutionary biology , chemistry , mathematics , geometry , organic chemistry
SUMMARY Among dicotyledons, the ability to accumulate large quantities of aluminium is statistically corre;ated with seven primitive characters. It is especially common among those families that were present in the early fossil history of the group and among tropical rain‐forest families. it is concluded, therefore, that aluminium‐accumulation is itself a primitive character.