Declining hydraulic efficiency as transpiring leaves desiccate: Two types of response

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2205-2215

  Brodribb, Tim J ^a,b   Holbrook, N Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; WATER;

ANGIOSPERM; ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; DESICCATION; FLOWMETER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LEAF; REHYDRATION; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TRANSPIRATION;

ARTICLE; DESICCATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SWEATING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DESICCATION; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; WATER;

FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 33750556192     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2006.01594.x     Document Type: Article

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