FREE-ENERGY TRANSFER IN PLANTS

被引:51
作者
BOYER, JS
机构
[1] Department of Botany, University of Illinois, Urbana
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D O I
10.1126/science.163.3872.1219
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Free-energy transfer was used to study water transport through the soil-plant system. Resistances to free-energy transfer are proportional to resistances to water transfer. Under certain conditions, the proportionality factor is 1. For a sunflower plant in moist soil, plant resistance to free-energy transfer was 30 times the soil resistance, and root-stem-leaf resistances were in a ratio of about 2:1:1, respectively. However, root and leaf resistances were equal when considered for a unit pathlength.
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