INTERVESSEL PIT MEMBRANE THICKNESS AS A KEY DETERMINANT of EMBOLISM RESISTANCE in ANGIOSPERM XYLEM

IAWA Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 152-171

  Li, Shan ^a   Lens, Frederic ^b   Espino, Susana ^c   Karimi, Zohreh ^a,d   Klepsch, Matthias ^a   Schenk, H Jochen ^c   Schmitt, Marco ^a   Schuldt, Bernhard ^e   Jansen, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air seeding; angiosperms; bordered pit; embolism resistance; intervessel pit membrane; intervessel wall; vessel element; xylem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977275005     PISSN: 09281541     EISSN: 22941932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22941932-20160128     Document Type: Article

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