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Asymmetric water transport in dense leaf cuticles and cuticle-inspired compositionally graded membranes

Most of the aerial organs of vascular plants are covered by a protective layer known as the cuticle, the main purpose of which is to limit transpirational water loss. Cuticles consist of an amphiphilic polyester matrix, polar polysaccharides that extend from the underlying epidermal cell wall and be...

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Autores principales: Kamtsikakis, Aristotelis, Baales, Johanna, Zeisler-Diehl, Viktoria V., Vanhecke, Dimitri, Zoppe, Justin O., Schreiber, Lukas, Weder, Christoph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7904774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33627645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21500-0