Dear Spiral User, we appreciate your patience during this upgrade which is to benefit our userbase, improve their experience in Spiral, introduce improvements, fixes and maintaining our versioning for future updates. Please note if you encounter any issues in Spiral, please raise a ticket to Research Applications team providing as much detail as possible in order to help us resolve your query. Again, we thank you for your patience and support during the upgrade. Kind Regards, Spiral Upgrade Team.
 
Trees suck. Notes on the physics of transpiration in trees
File(s)
Author(s)
Brown, Harvey R
Sutton, Adrian P
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The Cohesion Theory of the ascent of water in trees is a quiet triumph of modern science. Besides hydrodynamics, the physics of transpiration involves capillarity, evaporation and osmosis — phenomena which all have a history of considerable theoretical confusion. The aim of this paper is to supplement existing accounts of this physics in the plant science literature.
Date Issued
2025-03-01
Date Acceptance
2024-12-18
Citation
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2025, 195, pp.71-86
URI
URL
DOI
ISSN
0079-6107
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
71
End Page
86
Journal / Book Title
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Volume
195
Copyright Statement
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
License URL
Identifier
10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2024.12.002
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2024-12-25