Natural and experimentally altered hydraulic architecture of branch junctions in Acer saccharum Marsh. and Quercus velutina Lam. trees

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 255-264

  Aloni, Roni ^a   Alexander, John D ^b,c   Tyree, Melvin T ^b,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Acer saccharum; Branch junction; Hydraulic architecture; Quercus velutina; Xylem differentiation

Indexed keywords

ACER SACCHARUM;

EID: 0031000768     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004680050083     Document Type: Article

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