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Water release through plant roots: new insights into its consequences at the plant and ecosystem level

Iván Prieto1, Cristina Armas1, Francisco I Pugnaire1

  • 1Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EEZA-CSIC), Carretera de Sacramento s/n, E-04120 La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Spain.

The New Phytologist
|January 19, 2012
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