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Science 19 April 1985:
Vol. 228. no. 4697, pp. 327 - 329
DOI: 10.1126/science.228.4697.327
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Mechanism of Aeration in Rice

ILYA RASKIN 1 and HANS KENDE 1

1 MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824

Mass flow of air to the submerged parts of the plant constitutes the major mechanism of aeration in partially submerged rice. It is proposed that the flow of air results from reduction of pressure in the air-conducting system of the plant caused by consumption of oxygen and solubilization of respiratory carbon dioxide in the surrounding water.

Submitted on September 12, 1984
Accepted on December 10, 1984


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