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Using High Resolution Computed Tomography to Visualize the Three Dimensional Structure and Function of Plant Vasculature
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The importance of storage and redistribution in vascular plants
1Centre for Carbon, Water and Food, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia andrew.merchant@sydney.edu.au.
Tree Physiology
|March 11, 2016
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