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Bringing anatomy back into the equation
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Brodribb, TJ, Bringing anatomy back into the equation, Plant Physiology, 168 pp. 1461. ISSN 0032-0889 (2015) [Contribution to Refereed Journal]
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Abstract
There is more than metaphorical appeal to the thought
that humanity feeds off the sweat of vascular plants.
This statement has factual grounds in the sense that
plant water loss by transpiration is an inevitable companion
to the photosynthetic process that nourishes the
human population. A fascinating corollary of this linkage
between water and carbon is that leaf productivity
in well-watered plants is constrained by the efficiency
with which the plant vascular system can deliver water
to the sites of photosynthetic gas exchange in leaves.
Plant history shows us that species with a high capacity
for transporting water have prevailed over less efficient
predecessors (Raven, 1977), and this trajectory is particularly
evident in studies of the evolution of angiosperm
leaf vascular systems (Boyce et al., 2009).
Item Details
Item Type: | Contribution to Refereed Journal |
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Keywords: | leaf, anatomy, vein, stomata |
Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
Research Group: | Plant biology |
Research Field: | Plant physiology |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences |
UTAS Author: | Brodribb, TJ (Professor Tim Brodribb) |
ID Code: | 105071 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (DP140100666) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 5 |
Deposited By: | Plant Science |
Deposited On: | 2015-12-06 |
Last Modified: | 2015-12-07 |
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