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LEVITT1has re-interpreted an analogue proposed by Gradmann and van den Honert, and concluded that the chief resistance to flow through a plant is in the liquid and not in the vapour phase.
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Slatyer, R. O., Plant–Water Relationships (Academic Press, London, in the press).
Guggenheim, E. A., and Prue, J. E., Physicochemical Calculations, 178 (North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1956).
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SLATYER, R., LAKE, J. Resistance to Water Transport in Plants—Whose Misconception?. Nature 212, 1585–1586 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121585b0
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