| Range |
~1 MPa
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| Organism |
Plants |
| Reference |
Kaare H. Jensen & Maciej A. Zwieniecki, Physical Limits to Leaf Size in Tall Trees, Physical review letters, PRL 110, 018104 (2013) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.018104 p.3 right column top paragraphPubMed ID23383844
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| Primary Source |
Turgeon R. The puzzle of phloem pressure. Plant Physiol. 2010 Oct154(2):578-81. doi: 10.1104/pp.110.161679. AND Turgeon R. The role of phloem loading reconsidered. Plant Physiol. 2010 Apr152(4):1817-23. doi: 10.1104/pp.110.153023.PubMed ID20921188, 20200065
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| Comments |
"For most trees, sugar loading into the phloem
vasculature is believed to be a passive, diffusion-mediated process, and the available pressure differential ?p~1 MPa
does not scale with tree height and may be treated as an
independent parameter [primary sources]." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
108684 |