Hydraulic engineering of the angiosperm leaf: Do the Baileyan trends in perforation plate evolution account for the origin of high vein density?

New Phytologist

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 627-629

  Nardini, Andrea ^a   Jansen, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiosperm; Leaf; Perforation plates; Tracheids; Veins; Vessels

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANGIOSPERM; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; NOTE; PERFORATION PLATES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; TRACHEIDS; VASCULAR BUNDLE (PLANT); VEIN; VESSELS;

ANGIOSPERM; LEAF; PERFORATION PLATES; TRACHEIDS; VEINS; VESSELS;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; PLANT VASCULAR BUNDLE; WATER;

EID: 84880304457     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12404     Document Type: Note

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