Sentence:  Postheterotopic transformations played a great role in the evolution of <WSD>fructifications</WSD>. The formation of specialized seed-like sporophylls in the Lepidocarpaceae, of strobilar <WSD>fructifications</WSD> in the Noeggerathiales, of various capsules and other seed-bearing organs of many gymnosperms belong here. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.