biologia plantarum

International journal on Plant Life established by Bohumil Němec in 1959

Biologia plantarum 23:306, 1981 | DOI: 10.1007/BF02895374

Characteristics of current passage through plant tissue

M. Dvořák1, Jana Černohorská1, K. Janáček2
1 Department of Plant Physiology and Soil Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Praha 2, Czechoslovakia
2 Microbiological Institute, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Praha 4, Czechoslovakia

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.

Received: August 29, 1980; Accepted: November 10, 1980; Published: July 1, 1981  Show citation

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Dvořák, M., Černohorská, J., & Janáček, K. (1981). Characteristics of current passage through plant tissue. Biologia plantarum, 23(4), 306. doi: 10.1007/BF02895374
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