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PAUL JACKSON KRAMER
PAUL JACKSON KRAMER
Pages 246-263
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BOYER AND AUBREY W NAYLOR PAUK NAMER WAS A gifted plant physiologist whose life was characterizec!
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the family to a farm near Oxford, Ohio, where Miami University is locatecI, "in order to educate his chilciren," he often saicI. They attenclec!
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as a teaching assistant. In fact, cluring his senior year, after the instructor in plant physiology became ill, Paul taught the remainder of the course.
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uncler suction indicating that tensions could extend through the living tissues, " reducing the role of the living cells of the roots to that of a mere absorbing surface, a role which might in some respects be filled as well by dead as by living cells .
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root exudation. The living cells mostly prevented air from entering the vessels en c!
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vapor pressure of the soil water. This paper was the first to measure temperature effects on soil water movement en c!
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by transpiring plants is absorber! as a result of forces set in motion by the loss of water in transpiration." Further experiments shower!
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often react scientific papers containing statements with which they conic! not agree.
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for mycorrhizal organisms in tree culture, the importance of root temperature for salt en c! water uptake in plant culture, en c!
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become involves! with the American Society of Plant Physiologists en c!
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research experience that environmental resources frequently control plant performance (1973) , "There are specialists on the carbon pathway in photosynthesis, the energy transfer system, en c!
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Later, after reaching emeritus status, he became interested in nuclear magnetic resonance imaging as a way to follow paths of water movement from soil to roots, en c! he publisher!
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from the Society of American Foresters, a Barnes Life Membership in the American Society of Plant Physiologists, en c! a clistinguishec!
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27:216-20. Root resistance as a cause of decreased water absorption by plants at low temperatures.
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53:200-204. 1969 Plant and Soil Water Relationships: A Modern Synthesis.
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Observation of a water-depletion region surrounding loblolly pine roots by magnetic resonance imaging.
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