The role of plasmodesmata in the electrotonic transmission of action potentials

Plant Electrophysiology: Signaling and Responses

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 233-247

  Spanswick, Roger M ^a  

^a Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

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EID: 84882899651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29110-4_9     Document Type: Chapter

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