Aquaporins. A molecular entry into plant water relations.

Water relations are obviously crucial to the physiology of terrestrial plants, but 25 years ago most plant biologists viewed this area of research as somewhat of an oddity. Dominated by equations and unusual physical theories about liquids flowing in pipes, water relations seemed to be a field with

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