title: Hydraulic engineering of the angiosperm leaf: do the Baileyan trends in perforation plate evolution account for the origin of high vein density?
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy. nardini@units.it
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nardini
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jansen
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D019684:Magnoliopsida / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D058526:Plant Vascular Bundle / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000166:cytology*; D014867:Water / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D014867:Water
keywords: angiosperm; leaf; perforation plates; tracheids; veins; vessels