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Measurement of Fluxes across Membranes

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Transport in Plants II

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology ((919,volume 2 / A))

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Other Chapters are devoted to the relationships between fluxes of ions and the driving forces that produce them—concentration differences, electric potential differences, flows of solvent or solute, metabolic flows. This Chapter is concerned with the problem of measuring such fluxes across cellular membranes, and with the related problem of determining the distribution of ions between the various cellular compartments.

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  1. Botanisches Institut, Technische Hochschule, Schnittspahnstr. 3-5, Darmstadt, 6100, Federal Republic of Germany

    U. Lüttge

  2. School of Biological Sciences (A12), University of Sydney, Sydney, N.S.W., 2006, Australia

    M. G. Pitman

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Walker, N.A., Pitman, M.G. (1976). Measurement of Fluxes across Membranes. In: Lüttge, U., Pitman, M.G. (eds) Transport in Plants II. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 2 / A. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66227-0_5

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