Biologia Plantarum · 1981 · 21 citations · 2 references
Life SciencesPhysiologyPlant SciencesPlant AnatomyPlant EcophysiologyPlant PhysiologyCurrent-voltage CharacteristicsOhm's LawPlant CellsPlant Tissue AnalysisConducting TissueCurrent Path AnalysisCurrent-voltage RelationshipCurrentsStem TissuesTissue Conduction Modeling
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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