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Water Relations of Plant Cells

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Transport in Plants II

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology ((919,volume 2 / A))

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There are many good treatments of water relations of plants, plant cells and plant tissues such as those by Dainty (1963 a), Slatyer (1967), Briggs (1967), Weatherley (1970) and, most recently, the excellent general book by House (1974) covering both plant and animal cells and tissues. There are also many articles in the old Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, and there is the collection of articles in the three volumes edited by Kozlowski (1968 a, b; 1972).

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    U. Lüttge

  2. School of Biological Sciences (A12), University of Sydney, Sydney, N.S.W., 2006, Australia

    M. G. Pitman

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Dainty, J. (1976). Water Relations of Plant Cells. In: Lüttge, U., Pitman, M.G. (eds) Transport in Plants II. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 2 / A. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66227-0_2

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