Visualizing water-filled versus embolized status of xylem conduits by desktop x-ray microtomography

Plant Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Suuronen, Jussi Petteri ^a   Peura, Marko ^a   Fagerstedt, Kurt ^a   Serimaa, Ritva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birch; Cavitation; Tomography; Xylem

Indexed keywords

BETULA PENDULA;

EID: 84875840549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-9-11     Document Type: Article

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