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. 2015 Apr 22;6:266. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00266

FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 4

One ring of large cells are compared with many times smaller cells that provide the same hydraulic conductivity. The mass allocation for the cell wall construction is eight times higher for small cells. (computed from Tyree and Zimmermann, 2002 and Awad et al., 2012).