Canny's compensating pressure theory fails a test

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1082-1086

  Stiller, Volker ^a   Sperry, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033302702     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2656969     Document Type: Article

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