Biologia plantarum 28:329-337, 1986 | DOI: 10.1007/BF02902243
The feasibility of utilizing a mathematical model in studying nonlinear transport processes in living systems
- 1 Institute of Experimental Biology and Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
On the basis of proportionality between flow and its conjugated force a mathematical model for volume, current and osmotic flows was designed and a method for the experimental measurement of flows, the transbarrier (trans-segmental) potential and the rate of flow was devised.
The results obtained experimentally as well as using the mathematical model indicate that the plant root is differentiated not only according to localization, but also according to the conductivity, permeability and selectivity of these tissues.
Received: June 19, 1985; Accepted: January 16, 1986; Published: September 1, 1986 Show citation
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