Determination of cell water-relation parameters using the pressure probe: Extended theory and practice of the pressure-clamp technique

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 637-657

  Murphy, R ^a   Smith, J A C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kalanchoe daigremontiana; Membrane transport; Plasmodesmata; Pressure clamp; Pressure probe; Water relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031662190     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.1998.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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