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Nature 425, 361 (25 September 2003) | doi:10.1038/425361a
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Plant biology: Water gate
N. Michele Holbrook1 & Maciej A. Zwieniecki1
Abstract
Flooding reduces the ability of roots to absorb water. The molecular basis for this paradox involves the regulation of water-channel proteins by the pH inside root cells.
Plants are among the thirstiest of creatures. Of the more than 60 trillion tonnes of water that cycles each year from the land to the atmosphere, nearly two-thirds passes through the bodies of living land plants1.
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Correspondence to: N. Michele Holbrook1 Email: Holbrook@oeb.harvard.edu
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