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ZAHNER1 has stated that living cambial tissues must be under moderate to severe water stress almost daily during the growing season because of the great tensile forces which develop in the adjacent mature xylem. We have studied diurnal water variations within the developing tissues of tree stems.
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STEWART, C., THAM, S. & ROLFE, D. Diurnal Variations of Water in Developing Secondary Stem Tissues of Eucalypt Trees. Nature 242, 479–480 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242479a0
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