Scaling phloem transport: Information transmission

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 509-519

  Thompson, M V ^a,b   Holbrook, N M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimensionless model; Impulse response; Osmoregulatory flow; Sieve tube; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

OSMOREGULATION; PHLOEM;

EID: 1842581671     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2003.01148.x     Document Type: Article

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