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1Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, 442 Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E3, Canada. uwe.hacke@ualberta.ca.
Plant, Cell & Environment
|June 29, 2016
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This article comments on: Accumulation of sugars in the xylem apoplast observed under water stress conditions is controlled by xylem pH.
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