Stem Diameter (and Not Length) Limits Twig Leaf Biomass

The relationship between leaf and stem biomass as well as the relationship between leaf biomass and stem length and diameter are important to our understanding of a broad range of important plant scaling relationship because of their relationship to photosynthesis and thus growth. To understand how...

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Main Authors: Jun Sun, Mantang Wang, Min Lyu, Karl J. Niklas, Quanlin Zhong, Man Li, Dongliang Cheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2019.00185/full