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The regulation of water loss from plants has particular significance to the water use, photosynthetic rates, water-use efficiencies, and development of water stress in plants. These features strongly influence plant performance where the evaporative demand is not low and/or where water supplies in the root zone are limiting. Surprisingly, there are important conflicts of opinion concerning the systems by which water loss from plants is regulated. These conflicts must be resolved if we are to develop effective mathematical models of water transport in the soil—plant—atmosphere continuum.
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Hall, A.E., Kaufmann, M.R. (1975). Regulation of Water Transport in the Soil—Plant—Atmosphere Continuum. In: Gates, D.M., Schmerl, R.B. (eds) Perspectives of Biophysical Ecology. Ecological Studies, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87810-7_11
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