The hidden cost of transpiration

Beerling, David J.
Franks, Peter J.

¹David J. Beerling and Peter J. Franks are in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK. P.J.F. is also at the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. [email protected]

Published online 24 March 2010

Nature 464(7288):p 495-496, March 25, 2010. | DOI: 10.1038/464495a

Theoretical analyses reveal how plant investment in the architecture of leaf veins can be shuffled for different conditions, minimizing the construction costs associated with supplying water to leaves.