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Supply of Water to Plants

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Agricultural Meteorology

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Abstract

From the epidermal cells of their roots, where water enters, to the intercellular spores and epidermal cells of their leaves, where water is lost, water flows through plants and is distributed among the various tissues according to the physical and physicochemical laws of diffusion, cohesion, colloids, solutes, and evaporation. Nevertheless, the reason for studying the supply of water to plants is the fact that their life depends upon it as well as the fact that nearly three-quarters of the water received by a land such as the United States is lost by evapotransipration from farm and forest and grassland (Ackerman and Löf, 1959).

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Slavík, B. (1965). Supply of Water to Plants. In: Agricultural Meteorology. Meteorological Monographs, vol 6. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-940033-58-7_10

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