Contributions to the debate on water transport

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 43-46

  Canny, Martin J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Cohesion theory; Compensating pressure theory; Embolism; Tissue pressure; Water transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001972397     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2657124     Document Type: Article

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