Universality of phloem transport in seed plants

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1065-1076

  Jensen, Kåre Hartvig ^a   Liesche, Johannes ^b   Bohr, Tomas ^a   Schulz, Alexander ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Long distance transport; M nch mechanism; Phloem; Scaling; Sieve elements; Sugar; Trees

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BODY SIZE; GYMNOSPERM; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; OSMOSIS; PHLOEM; SEED; SUGAR; TRANSLOCATION;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GYMNOSPERM; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GYMNOSPERMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHLOEM;

GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84860238541     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02472.x     Document Type: Article

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