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Hold a leaf up to the light and you will notice a beautiful and intricate pattern of veins. This study shows how the architecture of these veins - their branching and reconnecting patterns - helps explain the different functions leaves may perform, such as damage resistance and resource transport.
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This page is a summary of: Linking functional traits to multiscale statistics of leaf venation networks, New Phytologist, August 2020, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nph.16830.
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