What happens when stems are embolized in a centrifuge? Testing the cavitron theory

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 311-320

  Cai, Jing ^a,b   Hacke, Uwe ^b   Zhang, Shuoxin ^a   Tyree, Melvin T ^b,c  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; ASPEN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTRIFUGATION; HISTOLOGY; HYBRIDIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; VASCULAR BUNDLE (PLANT);

CENTRIFUGATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT STEMS; PLANT VASCULAR BUNDLE; POPULUS; WATER;

POPULUS;

EID: 78349247908     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2010.01402.x     Document Type: Article

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