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Chapter 4: Water Balance of Plants
Topics
- Topic 4.1, Irrigation
- Topic 4.2, Physical Properties of Soils
- Topic 4.3, Calculating Velocities of Water Movement in the Xylem and in Living Cells
- Topic 4.4, Leaf Transpiration and Water Vapor Gradients
- Topic 4.5, Chapter Four References
Essays
- Essay 4.1, A Brief History of the Study of Water Movement in the Xylem - Hanno Richter, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, and Pierre Cruiziat, PIAF-INRA-UBP, France (August 2002)
- Essay 4.2, The Cohesion–Tension Theory at Work - Pierre Cruiziat, PIAF-INRA-UBP, France, and Hanno Richter, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna (May 2006)
- Essay 4.3, How Water Climbs to the Top of a 112 Meter-Tall Tree - George Koch, Northern Arizona University; Stephen Sillett and Gregg Jennings, Humboldt State University; Stephen Davis, Pepperdine University (May 2006)
- Essay 4.4, Cavitation and Refilling - James K. Wheeler and N. Michele Holbrook, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (March 2007)