Hydraulic Consequences of Vessel Evolution in Angiosperms
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J. S. Sperry,1* U. G. Hacke,y T. S. Feild,z Y. Sano,§ and E. H. Sikkema* *Department of Biology, University of Utah, 257S 1400E, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, U.S.A.; yDepartment of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H1, Canada; zDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, U.S.A.; and §Laboratory of Woody Plant Biology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
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