Abstract
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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Dvořák, M., Černohorská, J. & Janáček, K. Characteristics of current passage through plant tissue. Biol Plant 23, 306–310 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02895374
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