Current Advances in Fern Research
Ferns, collectively, represent an ancient species of vascular plant which has a direct connection to the beginning of life on Earth. Today they are valued for their ornamental appeal, environmental benefit or as sources of health benefiting metabolites. C
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Current Advances in Fern Research
Current Advances in Fern Research
Helena Fernández Editor
Current Advances in Fern Research
Editor Helena Fernández Department of Organisms and Systems Biology Oviedo University Oviedo, Spain
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Preface
This is the second book focussing on ferns, of our particular collection, given that the majority of researchers who have participated in the first book, titled Working with Ferns: Issues and Applications, decided to engage this new project. The first book had so many entries (around 20,000 since its publication in December 2010) that Springer considered a good idea to face a new venture, which was welcome by all the authors. There is other taxa, far away Arabidopsis and all those important crops we cultivate, hiding interesting clues that are waiting to be deciphered, so that we could finally understand how plants are, as we know them today. Ferns are the pioneering vascular plants that started living on land and still continue colonizing and spreading to all the corners of the Earth. Around 1200 species of ferns exist at the present time. Research on ferns is scarce. That is true. We are a small scientist community in reality but not for that less important. Extant ferns are representative of a legacy of great value, which can be admired and
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