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P A Beedlow1, D S Daly, M E Thiede
1Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratories, P.O. Box 999, 99352, Richland, WA, USA.
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
|November 21, 2013
Abstract:
An electrical device capable of continuously measuring micronsized changes in stem diameter of woody and herbaceous plants is described. Fumigation of sunflowers with automotive exhaust was used to test the ability of the device to detect short-term plant responses.
