Does Don Fisher's high-pressure manifold model account for phloem transport and resource partitioning?

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Patrick, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bulk flow; Hydraulic conductance; Hydrostatic pressure; Phloem transport; Plasmodesmata; Resource partitioning; Symplasmic phloem unloading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897002852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00184     Document Type: Review

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