Effects of the hydraulic coupling between xylem and phloem on diurnal phloem diameter variation

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 690-703

  Sevanto, Sanna ^a,b,d   Hölttä, Teemu ^c   Holbrook, N Michele ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Departments of Physics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydraulic conductance; Sap flow; Stem diameter variation; Xylem diameter variation

Indexed keywords

WATER;

DIAMETER; DIURNAL VARIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; OSMOSIS; PHLOEM; SAP FLOW; STEM; THEORETICAL STUDY; XYLEM;

ACER; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRCH; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HISTOLOGY; OAK; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; TIME; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; XYLEM;

ACER; BETULA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHLOEM; PLANT STEMS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; QUERCUS; TIME FACTORS; WATER; XYLEM;

EID: 79952530008     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02275.x     Document Type: Article

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