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Leaf nonstructural carbohydrate residence time, not concentration, correlates with leaf functional traits following

Shinichi Asao1,2, Danielle A Way2,3,4,5, Matthew H Turnbull6

  • 1Division of Plant Sciences, Research School of Biology, ARC Centre for Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia.

The New Phytologist
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