Why Canny's theory doesn't hold water

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1077-1081

  Comstock, Jonathan P ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033302701     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2656968     Document Type: Article

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