Water transport in plants obeys Murray's law

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6926, 2003, Pages 939-942

  McCulloh, Katherine A ^a   Sperry, John S ^a   Adler, Frederick R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTANCE;

WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

PLANT; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; WATER TRANSPORT; XYLEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PLANTS; WATER;

EID: 0037468207     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01444     Document Type: Article

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