Bordered pit structure and vessel wall surface properties. Implications for embolism repair

Plant Physiology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1015-1020

  Zwieniecki, Maciej Andrzej ^a   Holbrook, Noel Michele ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CONTACT ANGLE; EMBOLISM; XYLEM;

EID: 0033942554     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.123.3.1015     Document Type: Article

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