Article
Optimal allocation of leaf epidermal area for gas exchange.
The New phytologist - 1 Jun 2016
de Boer Hugo J, Price Charles A, Wagner-Cremer Friederike, Dekker Stefan C, Franks Peter J, Veneklaas Erik J
Abstract excerpt
A long-standing research focus in phytology has been to understand how plants allocate leaf epidermal space to stomata in order to achieve an economic balance between the plant's carbon needs and water use. Here, we present a quantitative theoretical framework to predict allometric relationships between morphological stomatal traits in relation to leaf gas exchange and the required allocation of epidermal area to...
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