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Reproductive Strategies in Bryophytes

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The chapter deals with the reproductive strategies in bryophytes: both asexual and sexual reproduction, fertilization and the reasons for the failure and their further development. The various factors involved in reproduction and their effects on reproductive biology with brief information on cladistic and molecular studies on phylogeny of bryophytes based on literature are provided.

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The authors are grateful to the director of National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, for providing us facilities, and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, for the financial assistance.

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Nath, V., Bansal, P. (2015). Reproductive Strategies in Bryophytes. In: Bahadur, B., Venkat Rajam, M., Sahijram, L., Krishnamurthy, K. (eds) Plant Biology and Biotechnology. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2286-6_13

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