supported by National Centre for NanoScience and Technology(China),Jiangsu Planned Project for Postdoctoral Research Funds,K.C.Wong Postdoctoral Fellowships,China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2005037746);State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,CAS),NSFC Program(Nos.40772006,40372008,40632010 and J0630967)
Fossil cytoplasm is a new research topic of interest in paleobotany. Atomic force microscope (AFM) is a new technology applied widely in physics and biology; however, it is rarely used in paleontology. Here we appli...
the Royal Society K. C. Wong Fellowships;China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2005037746); State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, No. 053103); Jiangsu Planned Project for Postdoctoral Research Funds, National Natural Science Foundation of China Program (No. 40632010 and No. J0630967); Sigma Xi Society ;the Deep Time RCN for their financial support.
Because the cytoplasm of a plant normally degrades after the death of the plant, finding cytoplasm in a plant body after a prolonged period of time, especially in fossil plants, is unexpected. Recent work on several 1...
This project is supported by the Jiangsu Planned Project for Postdoctoral Research Funds;China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2005037746), K.C;Wong Post-doctoral Fellowships, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS) (No. 053103);NSFC Program (Nos. 40632010 and J0630967).
For a long time, paleontologists have been focusing on hard parts of organisms during different geological periods while soft parts are rarely reported. Well-preserved plant cells, if found in fossils, are treated onl...