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Control of leaf expansion: a developmental switch from metabolics to hydraulics.
Plant physiology - 1 Jun 2011
Pantin Florent, Simonneau Thierry, Rolland Gaëlle, Dauzat Myriam, Muller Bertrand
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Leaf expansion is the central process by which plants colonize space, allowing energy capture and carbon acquisition. Water and carbon emerge as main limiting factors of leaf expansion, but the literature remains controversial about their respective contributions. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the importance of hydraulics and metabolics is organized according to both dark/light fluctuations and leaf...
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