【摘 要】
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Plant can take water from soil up to several metres high.Learning from the water migration process in plants has been attracting interests from scientist for over a hundred years.The water migration i
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Thermofluids Research Group,Faculty of Engineering,University of Nottingham,UK,NG9 2GZ
【出 处】
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The 5th International Conference of Bionic Engineering 第五届国际
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Plant can take water from soil up to several metres high.Learning from the water migration process in plants has been attracting interests from scientist for over a hundred years.The water migration in plant stem,especially xylem,involves various driving forces including capillary effect,osmosis effect,marangoni effect and transpiration effect,etc.However,the mechanism by which water rises against gravity occurs are still controversially discussed despite many water migration mechanisms that have been proposed by different researchers.And also,there still lacks of a critical transportation model because of the diversity and complex xylem structure of plants.
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