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Correspondence
Nature 424, 613 (7 August 2003) | doi:10.1038/424613b
Getting to the heart of transpiration in plants
Widmar Tanner1
- Lehrstuhl für Zellbiologie und Pflanzenphysiologie, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
Melvin T. Tyree in his Concepts essay on plant hydraulics "The ascent of water" (Nature 423, 923; 2003) mentions the well-known comparison of the mammalian heart, the pump circulating the blood, to the movement of water in plants by "the pulling force generated at the evaporative surface of leaves" (transpiration).
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