Biophysical and size-dependent perspectives on plant evolution
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Biophysical and size-dependent perspectives on plant evolution.
Physical laws and processes have profoundly influenced plant evolution. Their effects are invariably size dependent and thus subject to scaling as well as biophysical analyses even though these effects differ depending upon the fluid (water or air) in which plants evolve. Although organisms cannot obviate the effects of physical laws and processes, the consequences of these effects can be alter...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Botany
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1460-2431,0022-0957
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers379