Water transport in plants: Role of the apoplast

Plant and Soil

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 67-79

  Steudle, Ernst ^a   Frensch, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

apoplast; cell to cell path; composite transport; hydraulic conductivity; root; solute transport; water channels; water transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030426302     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00011658     Document Type: Article

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