Tag: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary

  • Science & Tech

    How tall trees move sugars

    A nine-member team of scientists, mostly from Harvard, has discovered that the hydraulic resistance to moving sugar-rich sap downward from the leaves of tall trees does not increase with the length of the tree as much as would be expected.

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    Michael Knoblauch (right) and son, Jan,