Virginia Tech Researchers Reveal Why Traumatized Trees Don't 'Bleed' to Death
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:00
in Earth & Climate
Researchers from Virginia Tech, the Georg-August University of Gottingen, Germany, and the Jackson Laboratory of Bar Harbor, Maine, have used a special type of microscope to discover how "check valves" in wood cells control sap flow and protect trees when they are injured.