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Characteristics of current passage through plant tissue

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Plant tissue connected in a d.c. circuit behaves as a capacitor, short-circuited through a resistor. Using a saw-tooth voltage (T = 2 ma, Umax = + 13 V), structural and physiological conditions in a plant tissue can be analyzed on the basis of changes in the current character.

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  1. Department of Plant Physiology and Soil Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Viničná 5, 128 44, Praha 2, Czechoslovakia

    M. Dvořák & Jana Černohorská

  2. Microbiological Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Vídenskà 1083, 142 20, Praha 4, Czechoslovakia

    K. Janáček

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Dvořák, M., Černohorská, J. & Janáček, K. Characteristics of current passage through plant tissue. Biol Plant 23, 306–310 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02895374

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