BIOLOGY Volume 2 - A Guide to General Biology - 2004

13. PLANT TRANSPORT

13.1. Plant Water Relations

13.1.6. Movement of Water Between Solutions by Osmosis

The terms listed above can only be used with confidence if they are fully understood. Question 5.4 on page 189 (Vol. 1) serves as a test to check whether you have a clear grasp of what ψ and ψ0 represent. The pressure potential, ψp, will be discussed below.



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