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Sun Q, Gilgen AK, Signarbieux C, Klaus VH, Buchmann N. Cropping systems alter hydraulic traits of barley but not pea grown in mixture. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2021; 44:2912-2924. [PMID: 33763869 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2020] [Revised: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Extreme events such as drought and heatwaves are among the biggest challenges to agricultural production and food security. However, the effects of cropping systems on drought resistance of arable crops via their hydraulic behaviour remain unclear. We investigated how hydraulic traits of a field-grown pea-barley (Pisum sativum L. and Hordeum vulgare L.) mixture were affected by different cropping systems, that is, organic and conventional farming with intensive or conservation tillage. Xylem vulnerability to cavitation of both species was estimated by measuring the pressure inducing 50% loss of hydraulic conductivity (P50 ), while the water stress plants experienced in the field were assessed using native percentage loss of hydraulic conductivity (nPLC). Pea and barley showed contrasting hydraulic behaviours: pea was less vulnerable to xylem cavitation and less stressed than barley; cropping systems affected the xylem vulnerability of barley, but not of pea. Barley grown under conventional farming with no tillage was more vulnerable and stressed than under organic farming with intensive tillage. nPLC proved to be a valuable indicator for plant water stress. Our results highlight the impact of cropping systems on crop xylem vulnerability and drought resistance, thus plant hydraulic traits, for protecting food security under future climate.
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- Qing Sun
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Ecological Systems Laboratory (ECOS), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Ganthaler A, Mayr S. Subalpine dwarf shrubs differ in vulnerability to xylem cavitation: An innovative staining approach enables new insights. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2021; 172:2011-2021. [PMID: 33866574 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Dwarf shrubs are a key functional group of the high-elevation vegetation belt. Despite their ecological relevance and high sensitivity to environmental changes, the hydraulic adaptations and species-specific variations in drought tolerance within this growth form are mostly unknown. Here, we assess the xylem vulnerability to cavitation of important character species of the Alpine dwarf shrub heaths in Central Europe. Due to the high percentage of nonfunctional xylem areas in these species, vulnerability curves were gained by an innovative staining approach with safranin, validated by hydraulic and xylem anatomical measurements. The loss of 50% conducting xylem area appeared in the range of -1.78 to -2.91 MPa. Midday plant water potential during an intense summer drought remained above these critical thresholds but was correlated with cavitation resistance. No trade-off between hydraulic safety and efficiency was detected across analyzed species. We conclude that the characteristic clustered occurrence of species in the heterogeneous mountain terrain (mainly interpreted as a consequence of varying snow cover dynamics) is also reflected in species-specific adjustments in xylem hydraulics. The interspecific variety in vulnerability thresholds and plant water potentials during summer drought indicates different hydraulic strategies and adjustments in water relations between these co-occurring shrubs.
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- Andrea Ganthaler
- Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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Thonglim A, Delzon S, Larter M, Karami O, Rahimi A, Offringa R, Keurentjes JJB, Balazadeh S, Smets E, Lens F. Intervessel pit membrane thickness best explains variation in embolism resistance amongst stems of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2021; 128:171-182. [PMID: 33216143 PMCID: PMC8324034 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcaa196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The ability to avoid drought-induced embolisms in the xylem is one of the essential traits for plants to survive periods of water shortage. Over the past three decades, hydraulic studies have been focusing on trees, which limits our ability to understand how herbs tolerate drought. Here we investigate the embolism resistance in inflorescence stems of four Arabidopsis thaliana accessions that differ in growth form and drought response. We assess functional traits underlying the variation in embolism resistance amongst the accessions studied using detailed anatomical observations. METHODS Vulnerability to xylem embolism was evaluated via vulnerability curves using the centrifuge technique and linked with detailed anatomical observations in stems using light microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. KEY RESULTS The data show significant differences in stem P50, varying 2-fold from -1.58 MPa in the Cape Verde Island accession to -3.07 MPa in the woody soc1 ful double mutant. Out of all the anatomical traits measured, intervessel pit membrane thickness (TPM) best explains the differences in P50, as well as P12 and P88. The association between embolism resistance and TPM can be functionally explained by the air-seeding hypothesis. There is no evidence that the correlation between increased woodiness and increased embolism resistance is directly related to functional aspects. However, we found that increased woodiness is strongly linked to other lignification characters, explaining why mechanical stem reinforcement is indirectly related to increased embolism resistance. CONCLUSIONS The woodier or more lignified accessions are more resistant to embolism than the herbaceous accessions, confirming the link between increased stem lignification and increased embolism resistance, as also observed in other lineages. Intervessel pit membrane thickness and, to a lesser extent, theoretical vessel implosion resistance and vessel wall thickness are the missing functional links between stem lignification and embolism resistance.
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- Ajaree Thonglim
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Research Group Functional Traits, RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Research Group Functional Traits, RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, BE Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, BE Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, BE Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg, PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Plant Developmental Genetics, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, BE Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Research Group Functional Traits, RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Research Group Functional Traits, RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Pittermann J, Baer A, Sang Y. Primary tissues may affect estimates of cavitation resistance in ferns. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 231:285-296. [PMID: 33786827 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Different methods of measuring cavitation resistance in fern petioles lead to variable results, particularly with respect to the P50 metric. We hypothesised that the fern dictyostele structure affects air entry into the xylem, and therefore impacts the shape of the vulnerability curve. Our study examined this variation by comparing vulnerability curves constructed on petioles collected from evergreen and deciduous ferns in the field, with curves generated using the standard centrifuge, air-injection and bench-top dehydration methods. Additional experiments complemented the vulnerability curves to better understand how anatomy shapes estimates of cavitation resistance. Centrifugation and radial air injection generated acceptable vulnerability curves for the deciduous species, but overestimated drought resistance in the two evergreen ferns. In these hardy plants, axial air injection and bench-top dehydration produced results that most closely aligned with observations in nature. Additional experiments revealed that the dictyostele anatomy impedes air entry into the xylem during spinning and radial air injection. Each method produced acceptable vulnerability curves, depending on the species being tested. Therefore, we stress the importance of validating the curves with in situ measures of water potential and, if possible, hydraulic data to generate realistic results with any of the methods currently available.
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- Jarmila Pittermann
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, USA
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Oyanoghafo OO, O’ Brien C, Choat B, Tissue D, Rymer PD. Vulnerability to xylem cavitation of Hakea species (Proteaceae) from a range of biomes and life histories predicted by climatic niche. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2021; 127:909-918. [PMID: 33606015 PMCID: PMC8225280 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcab020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Extreme drought conditions across the globe are impacting biodiversity, with serious implications for the persistence of native species. However, quantitative data on physiological tolerance are not available for diverse flora to inform conservation management. We quantified physiological resistance to cavitation in the diverse Hakea genus (Proteaceae) to test predictions based on climatic origin, life history and functional traits. METHODS We sampled terminal branches of replicate plants of 16 species in a common garden. Xylem cavitation was induced in branches under varying water potentials (tension) in a centrifuge, and the tension generating 50 % loss of conductivity (stem P50) was characterized as a metric for cavitation resistance. The same branches were used to estimate plant functional traits, including wood density, specific leaf area and Huber value (sap flow area to leaf area ratio). KEY RESULTS There was significant variation in stem P50 among species, which was negatively associated with the species climate origin (rainfall and aridity). Cavitation resistance did not differ among life histories; however, a drought avoidance strategy with terete leaf form and greater Huber value may be important for species to colonize and persist in the arid biome. CONCLUSIONS This study highlights climate (rainfall and aridity), rather than life history and functional traits, as the key predictor of variation in cavitation resistance (stem P50). Rainfall for species origin was the best predictor of cavitation resistance, explaining variation in stem P50, which appears to be a major determinant of species distribution. This study also indicates that stem P50 is an adaptive trait, genetically determined, and hence reliable and robust for predicting species vulnerability to climate change. Our findings will contribute to future prediction of species vulnerability to drought and adaptive management under climate change.
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- Osazee O Oyanoghafo
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, New South Wales 2751,Australia
- Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, New South Wales 2751,Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, New South Wales 2751,Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, New South Wales 2751,Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, New South Wales 2751,Australia
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Trabi CL, Pereira L, Guan X, Miranda MT, Bittencourt PRL, Oliveira RS, Ribeiro RV, Jansen S. A User Manual to Measure Gas Diffusion Kinetics in Plants: Pneumatron Construction, Operation, and Data Analysis. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:633595. [PMID: 34163496 PMCID: PMC8216216 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.633595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The Pneumatron device measures gas diffusion kinetics in the xylem of plants. The device provides an easy, low-cost, and powerful tool for research on plant water relations and gas exchange. Here, we describe in detail how to construct and operate this device to estimate embolism resistance of angiosperm xylem, and how to analyse pneumatic data. Simple and more elaborated ways of constructing a Pneumatron are shown, either using wires, a breadboard, or a printed circuit board. The instrument is based on an open-source hardware and software system, which allows users to operate it in an automated or semi-automated way. A step-by-step manual and a troubleshooting section are provided. An excel spreadsheet and an R-script are also presented for fast and easy data analysis. This manual aims at helping users to avoid common mistakes, such as unstable measurements of the minimum and maximum amount of gas discharged from xylem tissue, which has major consequences for estimating embolism resistance. Major advantages of the Pneumatron device include its automated and accurate measurements of gas diffusion rates, including highly precise measurements of the gas volume in intact, embolised conduits. It is currently unclear if the method can also be applied to woody monocots, gymnosperm species that possess torus-margo pit membranes, or to herbaceous species.
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- Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
- Center R&D in Ecophysiology and Biophysics, Agronomic Institute (IAC), Campinas, Brazil
- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
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- Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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- Center R&D in Ecophysiology and Biophysics, Agronomic Institute (IAC), Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
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- Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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A minimally disruptive method for measuring water potential in planta using hydrogel nanoreporters. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2008276118. [PMID: 34074748 PMCID: PMC8201978 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008276118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Gaps in our ability to document local water relations in leaves compromise our ability to build complete models of leaf and plant function and our understanding of ecophysiological phenomena, such as response and adaptation to drought. Macroscopically, leaf water potential has been shown to impact vegetative growth and yield, susceptibility to disease, and, in extreme drought, plant viability, making it a promising candidate trait to improve water-use efficiency in plants. In this paper, we present a nanoscale sensor (AquaDust) that provides minimally disruptive measurements of water potential in leaves of intact plants at high spatial and temporal resolution. This creates opportunities for improving our understanding of the mechanisms coupling variations in water potential to biological and physical processes. Leaf water potential is a critical indicator of plant water status, integrating soil moisture status, plant physiology, and environmental conditions. There are few tools for measuring plant water status (water potential) in situ, presenting a critical barrier for developing appropriate phenotyping (measurement) methods for crop development and modeling efforts aimed at understanding water transport in plants. Here, we present the development of an in situ, minimally disruptive hydrogel nanoreporter (AquaDust) for measuring leaf water potential. The gel matrix responds to changes in water potential in its local environment by swelling; the distance between covalently linked dyes changes with the reconfiguration of the polymer, leading to changes in the emission spectrum via Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET). Upon infiltration into leaves, the nanoparticles localize within the apoplastic space in the mesophyll; they do not enter the cytoplasm or the xylem. We characterize the physical basis for AquaDust’s response and demonstrate its function in intact maize (Zea mays L.) leaves as a reporter of leaf water potential. We use AquaDust to measure gradients of water potential along intact, actively transpiring leaves as a function of water status; the localized nature of the reporters allows us to define a hydraulic model that distinguishes resistances inside and outside the xylem. We also present field measurements with AquaDust through a full diurnal cycle to confirm the robustness of the technique and of our model. We conclude that AquaDust offers potential opportunities for high-throughput field measurements and spatially resolved studies of water relations within plant tissues.
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Degraeve S, De Baerdemaeker NJF, Ameye M, Leroux O, Haesaert GJW, Steppe K. Acoustic Vulnerability, Hydraulic Capacitance, and Xylem Anatomy Determine Drought Response of Small Grain Cereals. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:599824. [PMID: 34113357 PMCID: PMC8186553 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.599824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Selection of high-yielding traits in cereal plants led to a continuous increase in productivity. However, less effort was made to select on adaptive traits, favorable in adverse and harsh environments. Under current climate change conditions and the knowledge that cereals are staple foods for people worldwide, it is highly important to shift focus to the selection of traits related to drought tolerance, and to evaluate new tools for efficient selection. Here, we explore the possibility to use vulnerability to drought-induced xylem embolism of wheat cultivars Excalibur and Hartog (Triticum aestivum L.), rye cultivar Duiker Max (Secale cereale L.), and triticale cultivars Dublet and US2014 (x Triticosecale Wittmack) as a proxy for their drought tolerance. Multiple techniques were combined to underpin this hypothesis. During bench-top dehydration experiments, acoustic emissions (AEs) produced by formation of air emboli were detected, and hydraulic capacitances quantified. By only looking at the AE50 values, one would classify wheat cultivar Excalibur as most tolerant and triticale cultivar Dublet as most vulnerable to drought-induced xylem embolism, though Dublet had significantly higher hydraulic capacitances, which are essential in terms of internal water storage to temporarily buffer or delay water shortage. In addition, xylem anatomical traits revealed that both cultivars have a contrasting trade-off between hydraulic safety and efficiency. This paper emphasizes the importance of including a cultivar's hydraulic capacitance when evaluating its drought response and vulnerability to drought-induced xylem embolism, instead of relying on the AE50 as the one parameter.
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- Szanne Degraeve
- Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Laboratory of Applied Mycology and Phenomics, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Laboratory of Applied Mycology and Phenomics, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Mantova M, Menezes-Silva PE, Badel E, Cochard H, Torres-Ruiz JM. The interplay of hydraulic failure and cell vitality explains tree capacity to recover from drought. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2021; 172:247-257. [PMID: 33432594 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Global climatic models predict an increment in the frequency and intensity of drought events, which have important consequences on forest dieback. However, the mechanisms leading to tree mortality under drought conditions and the physiological thresholds for recovery are not totally understood yet. This study aimed to identify what are the key physiological traits that determine the tree capacity to recover from drought. Individuals of a conifer (Pseudotsuga menziesii M.) and an angiosperm (Prunus lusitanica L.) species were exposed to drought and their ability to recover after rehydration monitored. Results showed that the actual thresholds used for recovery from drought based on percentage loss of conductance (PLC) (i.e., 50% for conifers, 88% for angiosperms) do not provide accurate insights about the tree capacity for surviving extreme drought events. On the contrary, differences in stem relative water content (RWCStem ) and the level of electrolytes leakage (EL) were directly related to the capacity of the trees to recover from drought. This was the case for the conifer species, P. menziesii, for which higher RWCStem and lower EL values were related to the recovery capacity. Even if results showed a similar trend for the angiosperm P. lusitanica as for the conifers, differences between the two traits were much more subtle and did not allow an accurate differentiation between trees able to recover and those that were not. RWCStem and EL could work as indicators of tree capacity to recover from drought for conifers but more studies are required to confirm this observation for angiosperms.
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- Marylou Mantova
- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Laboratório de Fisiologia Vegetal, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Goiano, Goiânia, Brazil
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Guan X, Pereira L, McAdam SAM, Cao KF, Jansen S. No gas source, no problem: Proximity to pre-existing embolism and segmentation affect embolism spreading in angiosperm xylem by gas diffusion. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2021; 44:1329-1345. [PMID: 33529382 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Revised: 01/16/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2021] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Embolism spreading in dehydrating angiosperm xylem is driven by gas movement between embolized and sap-filled conduits. Here we examine how the proximity to pre-existing embolism and hydraulic segmentation affect embolism propagation. Based on the optical method, we compare xylem embolism resistance between detached leaves and leaves attached to branches, and between intact leaves and leaves with cut minor veins, for six species. Embolism resistance of detached leaves was significantly lower than that of leaves attached to stems, except for two species, with all vessels ending in their petioles. Cutting of minor veins showed limited embolism spreading in minor veins near the cuts prior to major veins. Moreover, despite strong agreement in the overall embolism resistance of detached leaves between the optical and pneumatic method, minor differences were observed during early stages of embolism formation. We conclude that embolism resistance may represent a relative trait due to an open-xylem artefact, with embolism spreading possibly affected by the proximity and connectivity to pre-existing embolism as a gas source, while hydraulic segmentation prevents such artefact. Since embolism formation may not rely on a certain pressure difference threshold between functional and embolized conduits, we speculate that embolism is facilitated by pressure-driven gas diffusion across pit membranes.
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- Xinyi Guan
- Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
- Laboratory of Plant Physiology "Coaracy M. Franco", Center R&D in Ecophysiology and Biophysics, Agronomic Institute (IAC), Campinas, Brazil
- Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
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- Purdue Center for Plant Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Plant Ecophysiology and Evolution Group, State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilisation of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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Oliveira RS, Eller CB, Barros FDV, Hirota M, Brum M, Bittencourt P. Linking plant hydraulics and the fast-slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 230:904-923. [PMID: 33570772 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Tropical ecosystems have the highest levels of biodiversity, cycle more water and absorb more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. Consequently, these ecosystems are extremely important components of Earth's climatic system and biogeochemical cycles. Plant hydraulics is an essential discipline to understand and predict the dynamics of tropical vegetation in scenarios of changing water availability. Using published plant hydraulic data we show that the trade-off between drought avoidance (expressed as deep-rooting, deciduousness and capacitance) and hydraulic safety (P50 - the water potential when plants lose 50% of their maximum hydraulic conductivity) is a major axis of physiological variation across tropical ecosystems. We also propose a novel and independent axis of hydraulic trait variation linking vulnerability to hydraulic failure (expressed as the hydraulic safety margin (HSM)) and growth, where inherent fast-growing plants have lower HSM compared to slow-growing plants. We surmise that soil nutrients are fundamental drivers of tropical community assembly determining the distribution and abundance of the slow-safe/fast-risky strategies. We conclude showing that including either the growth-HSM or the resistance-avoidance trade-off in models can make simulated tropical rainforest communities substantially more vulnerable to drought than similar communities without the trade-off. These results suggest that vegetation models need to represent hydraulic trade-off axes to accurately project the functioning and distribution of tropical ecosystems.
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- Rafael S Oliveira
- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, CP 6109, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, 13083-970, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, CP 6109, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, 13083-970, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, CP 6109, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, 13083-970, Brazil
- Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, CP 6109, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, 13083-970, Brazil
- Department of Physics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, 88040-900, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, CP 6109, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, 13083-970, Brazil
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0088, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, CP 6109, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, 13083-970, Brazil
- Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK
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Sviderskaya IV, Vaganov EA, Fonti MV, Fonti P. Isometric scaling to model water transport in conifer tree rings across time and environments. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:2672-2685. [PMID: 33367718 PMCID: PMC8006552 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The hydraulic properties of xylem determine the ability of plants to efficiently and safely provide water to their leaves. These properties are key to understanding plant responses to environmental conditions and evaluating their fate under a rapidly changing climate. However, their assessment is hindered by the challenges of quantifying basic hydraulic components such as bordered pits and tracheids. Here, we use isometric scaling between tracheids and pit morphology to merge partial hydraulic models of the tracheid component and to upscale these properties to the tree-ring level in conifers. Our new model output is first cross-validated with the literature and then applied to cell anatomical measurements from Larix sibirica tree rings formed under harsh conditions in southern Siberia to quantify the intra- and inter-annual variability in hydraulic properties. The model provides a means of assessing how different-sized tracheid components contribute to the hydraulic properties of the ring. Upscaled results indicate that natural inter- and intra-ring anatomical variations have a substantial impact on the tree's hydraulic properties. Our model facilitates the assessment of important xylem functional attributes because it requires only the more accessible measures of cross-sectional tracheid size. This approach, if applied to dated tree rings, provides a novel way to investigate xylem structure-function relationships across time and environmental conditions.
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- Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
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- Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
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- Dendrosciences, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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Skelton RP, Anderegg LDL, Diaz J, Kling MM, Papper P, Lamarque LJ, Delzon S, Dawson TE, Ackerly DD. Evolutionary relationships between drought-related traits and climate shape large hydraulic safety margins in western North American oaks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2008987118. [PMID: 33649205 PMCID: PMC7958251 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008987118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Quantitative knowledge of xylem physical tolerance limits to dehydration is essential to understanding plant drought tolerance but is lacking in many long-vessel angiosperms. We examine the hypothesis that a fundamental association between sustained xylem water transport and downstream tissue function should select for xylem that avoids embolism in long-vessel trees by quantifying xylem capacity to withstand air entry of western North American oaks (Quercus spp.). Optical visualization showed that 50% of embolism occurs at water potentials below -2.7 MPa in all 19 species, and -6.6 MPa in the most resistant species. By mapping the evolution of xylem vulnerability to embolism onto a fossil-dated phylogeny of the western North American oaks, we found large differences between clades (sections) while closely related species within each clade vary little in their capacity to withstand air entry. Phylogenetic conservatism in xylem physical tolerance, together with a significant correlation between species distributions along rainfall gradients and their dehydration tolerance, suggests that closely related species occupy similar climatic niches and that species' geographic ranges may have shifted along aridity gradients in accordance with their physical tolerance. Such trends, coupled with evolutionary associations between capacity to withstand xylem embolism and other hydraulic-related traits, yield wide margins of safety against embolism in oaks from diverse habitats. Evolved responses of the vascular system to aridity support the embolism avoidance hypothesis and reveal the importance of quantifying plant capacity to withstand xylem embolism for understanding function and biogeography of some of the Northern Hemisphere's most ecologically and economically important plants.
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- Robert P Skelton
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720;
- Fynbos Node, South African Environmental Observation Network, Newlands 7735, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93117
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Département des Sciences de l'Environnement, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 5H7, Canada
- Université de Bordeaux, INRAE (Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement), UMR BIOGECO, 33615 Pessac, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, INRAE (Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement), UMR BIOGECO, 33615 Pessac, France
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Partelli-Feltrin R, Smith AMS, Adams HD, Kolden CA, Johnson DM. Short- and long-term effects of fire on stem hydraulics in Pinus ponderosa saplings. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2021; 44:696-705. [PMID: 32890427 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2020] [Revised: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 08/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Understanding tree physiological responses to fire is needed to accurately model post-fire carbon processes and inform management decisions. Given trees can die immediately or at extended time periods after fire, we combined two experiments to assess the short- (one-day) and long-term (21-months) fire effects on Pinus ponderosa sapling water transport. Native percentage loss of conductivity (nPLC), vulnerability to cavitation and xylem anatomy were assessed in unburned and burned saplings at lethal and non-lethal fire intensities. Fire did not cause any impact on nPLC and xylem cell wall structure in either experiment. However, surviving saplings evaluated 21-months post-fire were more vulnerable to cavitation. Our anatomical analysis in the long-term experiment showed that new xylem growth adjacent to fire scars had irregular-shaped tracheids and many parenchyma cells. Given conduit cell wall deformation was not observed in the long-term experiment, we suggest that the irregularity of newly grown xylem cells nearby fire wounds may be responsible for decreasing resistance to embolism in burned plants. Our findings suggest that hydraulic failure is not the main short-term physiological driver of mortality for Pinus ponderosa saplings. However, the decrease in embolism resistance in fire-wounded saplings could contribute to sapling mortality in the years following fire.
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- Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
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- School of the Environment, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA
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- Gallo School of Management, University of California Merced, Merced, California, USA
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- Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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Chen YJ, Maenpuen P, Zhang YJ, Barai K, Katabuchi M, Gao H, Kaewkamol S, Tao LB, Zhang JL. Quantifying vulnerability to embolism in tropical trees and lianas using five methods: can discrepancies be explained by xylem structural traits? THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 229:805-819. [PMID: 32929748 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Vulnerability curves (VCs) describe the loss of hydraulic conductance against increasing xylem tension, providing valuable insights about the response of plant water transport to water stress. Techniques to construct VCs have been developed and modified continuously, but controversies continue. We compared VCs constructed using the bench-top dehydration (BD), air-injection-flow (AI), pneumatic-air-discharge (PAD), optical (OP) and X-ray-computed microtomography (MicroCT) methods for tropical trees and lianas with contrasting vessel lengths. The PAD method generated highly vulnerable VCs, the AI method intermediate VCs, whereas the BD, OP and MicroCT methods produced comparable and more resistant VCs. Vessel-length and diameter accounted for the overestimation ratio of vulnerability estimated using the AI but not the PAD method. Compared with directly measured midday embolism levels, the PAD and AI methods substantially overestimated embolism, whereas the BD, MicroCT and OP methods provided more reasonable estimations. Cut-open vessels, uncertainties in maximum air volume estimations, sample-length effects, tissue cracks and shrinkage together may impede the reliability of the PAD method. In conclusion, we validate the BD, OP and MicroCT methods for tropical plants, whereas the PAD and AI need further mechanistic testing. Therefore, applications of VCs in estimating plant responses to drought need to be cautious.
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- Ya-Jun Chen
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, China
- Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, China
- Yuanjiang Savanna Ecosystem Research Station, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuanjiang, Yunnan, 653300, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469, USA
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- School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469, USA
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, China
- Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, China
- Center of Plant Ecology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, 666303, China
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Secchi F, Pagliarani C, Cavalletto S, Petruzzellis F, Tonel G, Savi T, Tromba G, Obertino MM, Lovisolo C, Nardini A, Zwieniecki MA. Chemical inhibition of xylem cellular activity impedes the removal of drought-induced embolisms in poplar stems - new insights from micro-CT analysis. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 229:820-830. [PMID: 32890423 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In drought-stressed plants a coordinated cascade of chemical and transcriptional adjustments occurs at the same time as embolism formation. While these processes do not affect embolism formation during stress, they may prime stems for recovery during rehydration by modifying apoplast pH and increasing sugar concentration in the xylem sap. Here we show that in vivo treatments modifying apoplastic pH (stem infiltration with a pH buffer) or reducing stem metabolic activity (infiltration with sodium vanadate and sodium cyanide; plant exposure to carbon monoxide) can reduce sugar accumulation, thus disrupting or delaying the recovery process. Application of the vanadate treatment (NaVO3, an inhibitor of many ATPases) completely halted recovery from drought-induced embolism for up to 24 h after re-irrigation, while partial recovery was observed in vivo in control plants using X-ray microcomputed tomography. Our results suggest that stem hydraulic recovery in poplar is a biological, energy-dependent process that coincides with accumulation of sugars in the apoplast during stress. Recovery and damage are spatially coordinated, with embolism formation occurring from the inside out and refilling from the outside in. The outside-in pattern highlights the importance of xylem proximity to the sugars within the phloem to the embolism recovery process.
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- Francesca Secchi
- Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, Grugliasco, 10095, Italy
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council, Strada delle Cacce 73, Torino, 10135, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, Grugliasco, 10095, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, University of Trieste, via Giorgieri 10, Trieste, 34127, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, Grugliasco, 10095, Italy
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- Institute of Botany, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, BOKU, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, Vienna, 1180, Austria
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Area Science Park, Basovizza, Trieste, 34149, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, Grugliasco, 10095, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, Grugliasco, 10095, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, University of Trieste, via Giorgieri 10, Trieste, 34127, Italy
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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Gauthey A, Peters JMR, Carins-Murphy MR, Rodriguez-Dominguez CM, Li X, Delzon S, King A, López R, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT, Brodribb TJ, Choat B. Visual and hydraulic techniques produce similar estimates of cavitation resistance in woody species. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 228:884-897. [PMID: 32542732 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Hydraulic failure of the plant vascular system is a principal cause of forest die-off under drought. Accurate quantification of this process is essential to our understanding of the physiological mechanisms underpinning plant mortality. Imaging techniques increasingly are applied to estimate xylem cavitation resistance. These techniques allow for in situ measurement of embolism formation in real time, although the benefits and trade-offs associated with different techniques have not been evaluated in detail. Here we compare two imaging methods, microcomputed tomography (microCT) and optical vulnerability (OV), to standard hydraulic methods for measurement of cavitation resistance in seven woody species representing a diversity of major phylogenetic and xylem anatomical groups. Across the seven species, there was strong agreement between cavitation resistance values (P50 ) estimated from visualization techniques (microCT and OV) and between visual techniques and hydraulic techniques. The results indicate that visual techniques provide accurate estimates of cavitation resistance and the degree to which xylem hydraulic function is impacted by embolism. Results are discussed in the context of trade-offs associated with each technique and possible causes of discrepancy between estimates of cavitation resistance provided by visual and hydraulic techniques.
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- Alice Gauthey
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, Tas, 7001, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, Tas, 7001, Australia
- Irrigation and Crop Ecophysiology Group, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS, CSIC), Avenida Reina Mercedes, 10, Sevilla, 41012, Spain
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
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- UMR BIOGECO, INRA, Univ Bordeaux, Talence, 33450, France
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- L'Orme de Merisiers, Synchrotron SOLEIL, 91190 Saint-Aubin-BP48, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
- Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- PIAF, INRA, University of Clermont-Auvergne, 63100, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, Tas, 7001, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia
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Peters JMR, Gauthey A, Lopez R, Carins-Murphy MR, Brodribb TJ, Choat B. Non-invasive imaging reveals convergence in root and stem vulnerability to cavitation across five tree species. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:6623-6637. [PMID: 32822502 PMCID: PMC7586747 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2019] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Root vulnerability to cavitation is challenging to measure and under-represented in current datasets. This gap limits the precision of models used to predict plant responses to drought because roots comprise the critical interface between plant and soil. In this study, we measured vulnerability to drought-induced cavitation in woody roots and stems of five tree species (Acacia aneura, Cedrus deodara, Eucalyptus crebra, Eucalytus saligna, and Quercus palustris) with a wide range of xylem anatomies. X-ray microtomography was used to visualize the accumulation of xylem embolism in stems and roots of intact plants that were naturally dehydrated to varying levels of water stress. Vulnerability to cavitation, defined as the water potential causing a 50% loss of hydraulic function (P50), varied broadly among the species (-4.51 MPa to -11.93 MPa in stems and -3.13 MPa to -9.64 MPa in roots). The P50 of roots and stems was significantly related across species, with species that had more vulnerable stems also having more vulnerable roots. While there was strong convergence in root and stem vulnerability to cavitation, the P50 of roots was significantly higher than the P50 of stems in three species. However, the difference in root and stem vulnerability for these species was small; between 1% and 31% of stem P50. Thus, while some differences existed between organs, roots were not dramatically more vulnerable to embolism than stems, and the differences observed were less than those reported in previous studies. Further study is required to evaluate the vulnerability across root orders and to extend these conclusions to a greater number of species and xylem functional types.
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- Jennifer M R Peters
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, Australia
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute & Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, Australia
- Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, Australia
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Levionnois S, Ziegler C, Jansen S, Calvet E, Coste S, Stahl C, Salmon C, Delzon S, Guichard C, Heuret P. Vulnerability and hydraulic segmentations at the stem-leaf transition: coordination across Neotropical trees. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 228:512-524. [PMID: 32496575 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Hydraulic segmentation at the stem-leaf transition predicts higher hydraulic resistance in leaves than in stems. Vulnerability segmentation, however, predicts lower embolism resistance in leaves. Both mechanisms should theoretically favour runaway embolism in leaves to preserve expensive organs such as stems, and should be tested for any potential coordination. We investigated the theoretical leaf-specific conductivity based on an anatomical approach to quantify the degree of hydraulic segmentation across 21 tropical rainforest tree species. Xylem resistance to embolism in stems (flow-centrifugation technique) and leaves (optical visualization method) was quantified to assess vulnerability segmentation. We found a pervasive hydraulic segmentation across species, but with a strong variability in the degree of segmentation. Despite a clear continuum in the degree of vulnerability segmentation, eight species showed a positive vulnerability segmentation (leaves less resistant to embolism than stems), whereas the remaining species studied exhibited a negative or no vulnerability segmentation. The degree of vulnerability segmentation was positively related to the degree of hydraulic segmentation, such that segmented species promote both mechanisms to hydraulically decouple leaf xylem from stem xylem. To what extent hydraulic and vulnerability segmentation determine drought resistance requires further integration of the leaf-stem transition at the whole-plant level, including both xylem and outer xylem tissue.
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- Sébastien Levionnois
- UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, 97310, France
- AMAP , Univ Montpellier , CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, 34000, France
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- UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, 97310, France
- UMR SILVA, INRAE , Université de Lorraine, Nancy, 54000, France
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- Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, D-89081, Germany
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- UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, 97310, France
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- UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, 97310, France
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- UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, 97310, France
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- AMAP , Univ Montpellier , CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, 34000, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux , INRAE, BIOGECO, Pessac, F-33615, France
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- UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, 97310, France
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- UMR EcoFoG, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, 97310, France
- AMAP , Univ Montpellier , CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, Montpellier, 34000, France
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Ramírez-Valiente JA, López R, Hipp AL, Aranda I. Correlated evolution of morphology, gas exchange, growth rates and hydraulics as a response to precipitation and temperature regimes in oaks (Quercus). THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 227:794-809. [PMID: 31733106 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Accepted: 11/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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It is hypothesised that tree distributions in Europe are largely limited by their ability to cope with the summer drought imposed by the Mediterranean climate in the southern areas and by their competitive potential in central regions with more mesic conditions. We investigated the extent to which leaf and plant morphology, gas exchange, leaf and stem hydraulics and growth rates have evolved in a coordinated way in oaks (Quercus) as a result of adaptation to contrasting environmental conditions in this region. We implemented an experiment in which seedlings of 12 European/North African oaks were grown under two watering treatments, a well-watered treatment and a drought treatment in which plants were subjected to three cycles of drought. Consistent with our hypothesis, species from drier summers had traits conferring more tolerance to drought such as small sclerophyllous leaves and lower percent loss of hydraulic conductivity. However, these species did not have lower growth rates as expected by a trade-off with drought tolerance. Overall, our results revealed that climate is an important driver of functional strategies in oaks and that traits have evolved along two coordinated functional axes to adapt to different precipitation and temperature regimes.
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- José Alberto Ramírez-Valiente
- Centro de Investigación Forestal, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Carretera de La Coruña Km 7.5, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, 60532-1293, USA
- The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, 60605, USA
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- Centro de Investigación Forestal, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Carretera de La Coruña Km 7.5, Madrid, 28040, Spain
- Instituto de Investigaciones Agroambientales y de Economía del Agua (INAGEA), Carretera de Valldemossa, Palma de Mallorca, 07122, Spain
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Soriano D, Echeverría A, Anfodillo T, Rosell JA, Olson ME. Hydraulic traits vary as the result of tip-to-base conduit widening in vascular plants. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:4232-4242. [PMID: 32219309 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Plant hydraulic traits are essential metrics for characterizing variation in plant function, but they vary markedly with plant size and position in a plant. We explore the potential effect of conduit widening on variation in hydraulic traits along the stem. We examined three species that differ in conduit diameter at the stem base for a given height (Moringa oleifera, Casimiroa edulis, and Pinus ayacahuite). We made anatomical and hydraulic measurements at different distances from the stem tip, constructed vulnerability curves, and examined the safety-efficiency trade-off with height-standardized data. Our results showed that segment-specific hydraulic resistance varied predictably along the stem, paralleling changes in mean conduit diameter and total number of conduits. The Huber value and leaf specific conductivity also varied depending on the sampling point. Vulnerability curves were markedly less noisy with height standardization, making the vulnerability-efficiency trade-off clearer. Because conduits widen predictably along the stem, taking height and distance from the tip into account provides a way of enhancing comparability and interpretation of hydraulic traits. Our results suggest the need for rethinking hydraulic sampling for comparing plant functional differences and strategies across individuals.
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- Diana Soriano
- Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP, CDMX, México
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- Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP, CDMX, México
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- Department Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy
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- Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX, México
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- Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CP, CDMX, México
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Caicedo-Lopez LH, Contreras-Medina LM, Guevara-Gonzalez RG, Perez-Matzumoto AE, Ruiz-Rueda A. Effects of hydric stress on vibrational frequency patterns of Capsicum annuum plants. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2020; 15:1770489. [PMID: 32490712 PMCID: PMC8570743 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2020.1770489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 05/06/2020] [Accepted: 05/08/2020] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Plants that experience a lack of sufficient irrigation undergo hydric stress, which causes the modification of their mechanical properties. These changes include a complex network of chemical and physical signals that interact between plant-plant and plant-environment systems in a mechanism that is still not well understood, and that differs among species. This mechanical response implies different levels of vibration when the plant experiences structural modifications from self-hydraulic adjustments of flux exchange at specific frequencies, with these carrying behavioral information. To measure these signals, highly sensitive instrumentation that allows the decoding of displacement velocity and displacement of plants, which is possible through calibrated equipment such as 3D scanning laser vibrometers, is necessary. Laser vibrometry technology allows for noninvasive measurements in real-time. Physiological changes could reasonably affect the biomechanical condition of plants in terms of the frequency (hertz) and intensity of the plant's vibration. In this research, it is proposed that the frequency changes of a plant's vibration are related to the plant's hydric condition and that these frequency vibrations have the ecological potential to communicate water changes and levels of hydric stress. The peak of the velocity of plant displacements was found to vary from 0.079 to 1.74 mm/s, and natural frequencies (hertz) range is between 1.8 and 2.6 Hz for plants with low hydric stress (LHS), between 1.3 and 1.6 Hz for plants with medium hydric stress (MHS), and between 6.7 and 7.8 Hz for plants with high hydric stress. These values could act as preliminary references for water management using noninvasive techniques and, knowledge of the range of natural frequencies of hydric stress risk in chili pepper crops can be applied in precision agriculture practices.
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- Laura Helena Caicedo-Lopez
- Group of Basic and Applied Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Autonomous University of Queretaro, El Marques, Mexico
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- Group of Basic and Applied Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Autonomous University of Queretaro, El Marques, Mexico
- CONTACT Luis Miguel Contreras-Medina Group of Basic and Applied Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Autonomous University of Queretaro, Campus Amazcala, Campus Amazcala. Carr. Chichimequillas-Amazcala Km 1 S/N, El Marques76265, Mexico
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- Group of Basic and Applied Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Autonomous University of Queretaro, El Marques, Mexico
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- Physical Metrology, National Metrology Center (CENAM) Km 4.5 Carretera a Los Cues C.P, El Marques, México
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Zhao H, Jiang Z, Ma J, Cai J. What causes the differences in cavitation resistance of two shrubs? Wood anatomical explanations and reliability testing of vulnerability curves. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2020; 169:156-168. [PMID: 31828790 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2019] [Revised: 12/09/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Relationships between xylem anatomical traits and cavitation resistance have always been a major content of plant hydraulics. To know how plants cope with drought, it is extremely important to acquire detailed knowledge about xylem anatomical traits and assess the cavitation resistance accurately. This study aims to increase our knowledge in the methods determining cavitation resistance and xylem anatomical traits. We selected a semi-ring-porous species, Hippophae rhamnoides L., and a diffuse-porous species, Corylus heterophylla F., to clarify the reasons for the difference in cavitation resistance based on detailed xylem anatomical traits and reliable vulnerability curves (VCs). Both Cavitron and bench dehydration (BD) were used to construct VCs. Xylem anatomical traits, including pit membrane ultrastructure of these two species, were determined. The VCs obtained by the two different techniques were of different types for H. rhamnoides, its Cavitron VCs might be unreliable because of open-vessel artifacts. On the basis of BD VCs, H. rhamnoides showed higher cavitation resistance than C. heterophylla, and this is attributed to its low vessel connectivity as well as non-porous and thicker pit membranes.
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- Han Zhao
- College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- Timothy J. Brodribb
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
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- Departments of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior and Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, 140 Gortner Laboratory, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia
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Chacon AI, Baer A, Wheeler JK, Pittermann J. Two coastal Pacific evergreens, Arbutus menziesii, Pursh. and Quercus agrifolia, Née show little water stress during California's exceptional drought. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0230868. [PMID: 32240222 PMCID: PMC7117729 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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California's coastal climate is characterized by rainy winters followed by a dry summer season that is supplemented by frequent fog. While rising temperatures and drought caused massive tree mortality in central California during the 2011–2015 extreme drought, dying trees were less common in the central coast region. We hypothesized that cooler, maritime-ameliorated temperatures reduced the effects of drought stress on coastal vegetation. To test this, weekly measurements of water potential and stomatal conductance were made on two coast evergreen tree species, Arbutus menziesii and Quercus agrifolia, throughout the summer 2014 dry season. Water potential remained generally constant during this period but stomatal conductance declined in both species as the dry season progressed. Species' resistance to embolism was determined using the centrifuge method, and showed Q. agrifolia to be more vulnerable to embolism than A. menziesii. The stem vulnerability curves were consistent with species' seasonal water relations as well as their anatomy; the ring-porous Q. agrifolia had substantially larger conduits than the diffuse-porous A. menziesii. Leaf turgor loss points differed significantly as did other pressure-volume parameters but these data were consistent with the trees' seasonal water relations. Overall, the two species appear to employ differing water use strategies; A. menziesii is more profligate in its water use, while Q. agrifolia is more conservative, with a narrower safety margin against drought-induced loss of xylem transport capacity. Despite the extended drought, these species exhibited neither branch die-back nor any obvious symptoms of pronounced water-stress during the study period, implying that the maritime climate of California's central coast may buffer the local vegetation against the severe effects of prolonged drought.
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- Alexander I. Chacon
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Torres-Ruiz JM. Virtual issue on Plant hydraulics: update on the recent discoveries. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2020; 168:758-761. [PMID: 32237154 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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- José M Torres-Ruiz
- Université Clermont-Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Väänänen PJ, Osem Y, Cohen S, Grünzweig JM. Differential drought resistance strategies of co-existing woodland species enduring the long rainless Eastern Mediterranean summer. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2020; 40:305-320. [PMID: 31860712 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpz130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Revised: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 09/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In anticipation of a drier climate and to project future changes in forest dynamics, it is imperative to understand species-specific differences in drought resistance. The objectives of this study were to form a comprehensive understanding of the drought resistance strategies adopted by Eastern Mediterranean woodland species, and to elaborate specific ecophysiological traits that can explain the observed variation in survival among these species. We examined leaf water potential (𝛹), gas exchange and stem hydraulics during 2-3 years in mature individuals of the key woody species Phillyrea latifolia L., Pistacia lentiscus L. and Quercus calliprinos Webb that co-exist in a dry woodland experiencing ~ 6 rainless summer months. As compared with the other two similarly functioning species, Phillyrea displayed considerably lower 𝛹 (minimum 𝛹 of -8.7 MPa in Phillyrea vs -4.2 MPa in Pistacia and Quercus), lower 𝛹 at stomatal closure and lower leaf turgor loss point (𝛹TLP ), but reduced hydraulic vulnerability and wider safety margins. Notably, Phillyrea allowed 𝛹 to drop below 𝛹TLP under severe drought, whereas the other two species maintained positive turgor. These results indicate that Phillyrea adopted a more anisohydric drought resistance strategy, while Pistacia and Quercus exhibited a more isohydric strategy and probably relied on deeper water reserves. Unlike the two relatively isohydric species, Phillyrea reached complete stomatal closure at the end of the dry summer. Despite assessing a large number of physiological traits, none of them could be directly related to tree mortality. Higher mortality was observed for Quercus than for the other two species, which may result from higher water consumption due to its 2.5-10 times larger crown volume. The observed patterns suggest that similar levels of drought resistance in terms of survival can be achieved via different drought resistance strategies. Conversely, similar resistance strategies in terms of isohydricity can lead to different levels of vulnerability to extreme drought.
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- Päivi J Väänänen
- Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
- Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel
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- Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel
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- Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet-Dagan 50250, Israel
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- Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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Skelton R, Diaz J. Quantifying losses of plant hydraulic function: seeing the forest, the trees and the xylem. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2020; 40:285-289. [PMID: 31972024 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpz141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Revised: 12/11/2019] [Accepted: 12/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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- Robert Skelton
- South African Environmental Observation Network, Fynbos Node, CBC Building, Rhodes Drive, Newlands, 7735, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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Gao Y, Yang Z, Wang G, Sun J, Zhang X. Discerning the Difference Between Lumens and Scalariform Perforation Plates in Impeding Water Flow in Single Xylem Vessels and Vessel Networks in Cotton. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:246. [PMID: 32211002 PMCID: PMC7076184 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The geometrical structure and spatial arrangement of lumens, bordered pits, and scalariform perforation plates in xylem vessels modulate water flow from roots to leaves. Understanding their respective hydraulic functions is essential to unveil how plants regulate their hydraulic networks to facilitate the ascent of sap under biotic and abiotic stresses but is challenging because of the opaque nature of the vessel networks and water flow within them. We made the first-ever effort to discern the difference between lumens and scalariform perforation plates in cotton in impeding water flow in single vessels and vessel networks using X-ray tomography and pore-scale numerical simulation. Three-dimensional structures of xylem vessels in the stem of two cotton cultivars were acquired non-invasively using X-ray computed tomography (CT) at high spatial resolution, and a lattice Boltzmann model was developed to simulate water flow through the xylem networks at micrometer scale. The detailed water velocity and pressure simulated using the model were used to calculate the hydraulic resistance caused by the lumens and the scalariform perforation plates in individual vessels and the vessel networks of the two cotton cultivars. The results showed that the hydraulic resistance spiked whenever water flowed across a perforation plate and that the overall hydraulic resistance caused by the perforation plates in an individual vessel accounted for approximately 54% of the total resistance of the vessel. We also calculated the hydraulic conductance of individual vessels and vessel networks using the simulated water velocity and pressure at micrometer scale and compared it with those estimated from the Hagen Poiseuille (HP) equation as commonly used in the literature by approximating the xylem vessels in the cotton as isolated tubes. While it was found that the HP equation overestimated the hydraulic conductance by more than 200%, the overestimate was largely due to the incapability of the HP equation to represent the perforation plates rather than its approximation of the irregular vessels by circular tubes.
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- Yang Gao
- Key Laboratory of Crop Water Use and Regulation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Farmland Irrigation Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xinxiang, China
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- School of Civil Engineering, University of Wuhan, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Water Use and Regulation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Farmland Irrigation Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xinxiang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Water Use and Regulation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Farmland Irrigation Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xinxiang, China
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- Department of Sustainable Agricultural Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom
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Petruzzellis F, Tomasella M, Miotto A, Natale S, Trifilò P, Nardini A. A Leaf Selfie: Using a Smartphone to Quantify Leaf Vulnerability to Hydraulic Dysfunction. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 9:E234. [PMID: 32054113 PMCID: PMC7076359 DOI: 10.3390/plants9020234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Revised: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/05/2020] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Accurate predictions of species distribution under current and future climate conditions require modeling efforts based on clear mechanistic relationships between climate variables and plant physiological functions. Vulnerability of leaves to xylem embolism is a key mechanistic trait that might be included in these modeling efforts. Here, we propose a simple set-up to measure leaf vulnerability to embolism on the basis of the optical method using a smartphone, a light source, and a notebook. Our data show that this proposed set-up can adequately quantify the vulnerability to xylem embolism of leaf major veins in Populus nigra and Ostrya carpinifolia, producing values consistent with those obtained in temperate tree species with other methods, allowing virtually any laboratory to quantify species-specific drought tolerance on the basis of a sound mechanistic trait.
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- Francesco Petruzzellis
- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy; (F.P.); (M.T.); (A.M.); (S.N.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy; (F.P.); (M.T.); (A.M.); (S.N.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy; (F.P.); (M.T.); (A.M.); (S.N.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy; (F.P.); (M.T.); (A.M.); (S.N.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze chimiche, biologiche, farmaceutiche e ambientali, Università di Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d’Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy;
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy; (F.P.); (M.T.); (A.M.); (S.N.)
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Lu Y, Duursma RA, Farrior CE, Medlyn BE, Feng X. Optimal stomatal drought response shaped by competition for water and hydraulic risk can explain plant trait covariation. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2020; 225:1206-1217. [PMID: 31538667 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2019] [Accepted: 09/12/2019] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The classical theory of stomatal optimization stipulates that stomata should act to maximize photosynthesis while minimizing transpiration. This theory, despite its remarkable success in reproducing empirical patterns, does not account for the fact that the available water to plants is dynamically regulated by plants themselves, and that plants compete for water in most locations. Here, we develop an alternative theory in which plants maximize the expected carbon gain under stochastic rainfall in a competitive environment. We further incorporate xylem hydraulic limitation as an additional constraint to transpiration and evaluate its impacts on stomatal optimization by incorporating the direct carbon cost of xylem recovery and the opportunity cost of reduced future photosynthesis as a result of irrecoverable xylem damage. We predict stomatal behaviour to be more conservative with a higher cost induced by xylem damage. By varying the unit carbon cost and extent of xylem recovery, characterizing the direct and opportunity cost of xylem damage, respectively, our model can reproduce several key patterns of stomatal-hydraulic trait covariations. By addressing the key elements of water limitation in plant gas exchange simultaneously, including plants' self-regulation of water availability, competition for water and hydraulic risk, our study provides a comprehensive theoretical basis for understanding stomatal behaviour.
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- Yaojie Lu
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, 2751, NSW, Australia
- Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, 55455, USA
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, 2751, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, 2751, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, 55455, USA
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Creek D, Lamarque LJ, Torres-Ruiz JM, Parise C, Burlett R, Tissue DT, Delzon S. Xylem embolism in leaves does not occur with open stomata: evidence from direct observations using the optical visualization technique. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:1151-1159. [PMID: 31641746 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2019] [Accepted: 10/11/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Drought represents a major abiotic constraint to plant growth and survival. On the one hand, plants keep stomata open for efficient carbon assimilation while, on the other hand, they close them to prevent permanent hydraulic impairment from xylem embolism. The order of occurrence of these two processes (stomatal closure and the onset of leaf embolism) during plant dehydration has remained controversial, largely due to methodological limitations. However, the newly developed optical visualization method now allows concurrent monitoring of stomatal behaviour and leaf embolism formation in intact plants. We used this new approach directly by dehydrating intact saplings of three contrasting tree species and indirectly by conducting a literature survey across a greater range of plant taxa. Our results indicate that increasing water stress generates the onset of leaf embolism consistently after stomatal closure, and that the lag time between these processes (i.e. the safety margin) rises with increasing embolism resistance. This suggests that during water stress, embolism-mediated declines in leaf hydraulic conductivity are unlikely to act as a signal for stomatal down-regulation. Instead, these species converge towards a strategy of closing stomata early to prevent water loss and delay catastrophic xylem dysfunction.
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- Danielle Creek
- Université Clermont-Auvergne, INRA, PIAF, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- BIOGECO, INRA, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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Emilio T, Lamarque LJ, Torres-Ruiz JM, King A, Charrier G, Burlett R, Conejero M, Rudall PJ, Baker WJ, Delzon S. Embolism resistance in petioles and leaflets of palms. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2020; 124:1173-1184. [PMID: 31227829 PMCID: PMC6943700 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcz104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2019] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Hydraulic studies are currently biased towards conifers and dicotyledonous angiosperms; responses of arborescent monocots to increasing temperature and drought remain poorly known. This study aims to assess xylem resistance to drought-induced embolism in palms. METHODS We quantified embolism resistance via P50 (xylem pressure inducing 50 % embolism or loss of hydraulic conductivity) in petioles and leaflets of six palm species differing in habitat and phylogenetic relatedness using three techniques: in vivo X-ray-based microcomputed tomography, the in situ flow centrifuge technique and the optical vulnerability method. KEY RESULTS Our results show that P50 of petioles varies greatly in the palm family, from -2.2 ± 0.4 MPa in Dypsis baronii to -5.8 ± 0.3 MPa in Rhapis excelsa (mean ± s.e.). No difference or weak differences were found between petioles and leaf blades within species. Surprisingly, where differences occurred, leaflets were less vulnerable to embolism than petioles. Embolism resistance was not correlated with conduit size (r = 0.37, P = 0.11). CONCLUSIONS This study represents the first estimate of drought-induced xylem embolism in palms across biomes and provides the first step towards understanding hydraulic adaptations in long-lived arborescent monocots. It showed an almost 3-fold range of embolism resistance between palm species, as large as that reported in all angiosperms. We found little evidence for hydraulic segmentation between leaflets and petioles in palms, suggesting that when it happens, hydraulic segregation may lack a clear relationship with organ cost or replaceability.
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- Thaise Emilio
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK
- Programa Nacional de Pós-Doutorado (PNPD), Programa de Pós Graduação em Ecologia, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L’Orme de Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- BIOGECO, INRA, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac, France
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Pereira L, Bittencourt PRL, Pacheco VS, Miranda MT, Zhang Y, Oliveira RS, Groenendijk P, Machado EC, Tyree MT, Jansen S, Rowland L, Ribeiro RV. The Pneumatron: An automated pneumatic apparatus for estimating xylem vulnerability to embolism at high temporal resolution. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2020; 43:131-142. [PMID: 31461536 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Revised: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Xylem vulnerability to embolism represents an important trait to determine species distribution patterns and drought resistance. However, estimating embolism resistance frequently requires time-consuming and ambiguous hydraulic lab measurements. Based on a recently developed pneumatic method, we present and test the "Pneumatron", a device that generates high time-resolution and fully automated vulnerability curves. Embolism resistance is estimated by applying a partial vacuum to extract air from an excised xylem sample, while monitoring the pressure change over time. Although the amount of gas extracted is strongly correlated with the percentage loss of xylem conductivity, validation of the Pneumatron was performed by comparison with the optical method for Eucalyptus camaldulensis leaves. The Pneumatron improved the precision of the pneumatic method considerably, facilitating the detection of small differences in the (percentage of air discharged [PAD] < 0.47%). Hence, the Pneumatron can directly measure the 50% PAD without any fitting of vulnerability curves. PAD and embolism frequency based on the optical method were strongly correlated (r2 = 0.93) for E. camaldulensis. By providing an open source platform, the Pneumatron represents an easy, low-cost, and powerful tool for field measurements, which can significantly improve our understanding of plant-water relations and the mechanisms behind embolism.
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- Luciano Pereira
- Laboratory of Plant Physiology "Coaracy M. Franco", Center R&D in Ecophysiology and Biophysics, Agronomic Institute (IAC), Campinas, Brazil
- Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, P.O. Box 6109, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, 13083-970, Brazil
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, P.O. Box 6109, UNICAMP, Campinas, 13083-970, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, P.O. Box 6109, UNICAMP, Campinas, 13083-970, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology "Coaracy M. Franco", Center R&D in Ecophysiology and Biophysics, Agronomic Institute (IAC), Campinas, Brazil
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- Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, 89081, Germany
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, P.O. Box 6109, UNICAMP, Campinas, 13083-970, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, P.O. Box 6109, UNICAMP, Campinas, 13083-970, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Plant Physiology "Coaracy M. Franco", Center R&D in Ecophysiology and Biophysics, Agronomic Institute (IAC), Campinas, Brazil
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- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, China
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- Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Ulm, 89081, Germany
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, P.O. Box 6109, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, 13083-970, Brazil
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Fontes CG, Cavender-Bares J. Toward an integrated view of the 'elephant': unlocking the mysteries of water transport and xylem vulnerability in oaks. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2020; 40:1-4. [PMID: 31748794 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpz116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Revised: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 10/24/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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- Clarissa G Fontes
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1479 Gortner Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1479 Gortner Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
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De Baerdemaeker NJF, Arachchige KNR, Zinkernagel J, Van den Bulcke J, Van Acker J, Schenk HJ, Steppe K. The stability enigma of hydraulic vulnerability curves: addressing the link between hydraulic conductivity and drought-induced embolism. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 39:1646-1664. [PMID: 31274162 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpz078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Revised: 03/29/2019] [Accepted: 06/13/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Maintaining xylem water transport under drought is vital for plants, but xylem failure does occur when drought-induced embolisms form and progressively spread through the xylem. The hydraulic method is widely considered the gold standard to quantify drought-induced xylem embolism. The method determines hydraulic conductivity (Kh) in cut branch samples, dehydrated to specific drought levels, by pushing water through them. The technique is widely considered for its reliable Kh measurements, but there is some uncertainty in the literature over how to define stable Kh and how that relates to the degree of xylem embolism formation. Therefore, the most common setup for this method was extended to measure four parameters: (i) inlet Kh, (ii) outlet Kh, (iii) radial flow from xylem to surrounding living tissue and (iv) the pressure difference across the sample. From a strictly theoretical viewpoint, hydraulic steady state, where inflow equals outflow and radial flow is zero, will result in stable Kh. Application of the setup to Malus domestica Borkh. branches showed that achieving hydraulic steady state takes considerable time (up to 300 min) and that time to reach steady state increased with declining xylem water potentials. During each experimental run, Kh and xylem water potentials dynamically increased, which was supported by X-ray computed microtomography visualizations of embolism refilling under both high- (8 kPa) and low-pressure (2 kPa) heads. Supplying pressurized water can hence cause artificial refilling of vessels, which makes it difficult to achieve a truly stable Kh in partially embolized xylem.
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- Niels J F De Baerdemaeker
- Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Vegetable Crops, Hochschule Geisenheim University, 65366 Geisenheim, Germany
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- UGCT-Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- UGCT-Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Plants and H2O Laboratory, Department of Biological Science, California State University Fullerton, PO Box 6850, Fullerton, CA 92834-6850, USA
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- Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Baker KV, Tai X, Miller ML, Johnson DM. Six co-occurring conifer species in northern Idaho exhibit a continuum of hydraulic strategies during an extreme drought year. AOB PLANTS 2019; 11:plz056. [PMID: 31656556 PMCID: PMC6804486 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plz056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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As growing seasons in the northwestern USA lengthen, on track with climate predictions, the mixed conifer forests that dominate this region will experience extended seasonal drought conditions. The year of 2015, which had the most extreme drought for the area on record, offered a potential analogue of future conditions. During this period, we measured the daily courses of water potential and gas exchange as well as the hydraulic conductivity and vulnerability to embolism of six dominant native conifer species, Abies grandis, Larix occidentalis, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus monticola, Pseudotsuga menziesii and Thuja occidentalis, to determine their responses to 5 months of record-low precipitation. The deep ash-capped soils of the region allowed gas exchange to continue without significant evidence of water stress for almost 2 months after the last rainfall event. Midday water potentials never fell below -2.2 MPa in the evergreen species and -2.7 MPa in the one deciduous species. Branch xylem was resistant to embolism, with P 50 values ranging from -3.3 to -7.0 MPa. Root xylem, however, was more vulnerable, with P 50 values from -1.3 to -4.6 MPa. With predawn water potentials as low as -1.3 MPa, the two Pinus species likely experienced declines in root hydraulic conductivity. Stomatal conductance of all six species was significantly responsive to vapour pressure only in the dry months (August-October), with no response evident in the wet months (June-July). While there were similarities among species, they exhibited a continuum of isohydry and safety margins. Despite the severity of this drought, all species were able to continue photosynthesis until mid-October, likely due to the mediating effects of the meter-deep, ash-capped silty-loam soils with large water storage capacity. Areas with these soil types, which are characteristic of much of the northwestern USA, could serve as refugia under drier and warmer future conditions.
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- Kathryn V Baker
- Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
- Department of Environmental Science, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
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- Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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Chen Z, Liu S, Lu H, Wan X. Interaction of stomatal behaviour and vulnerability to xylem cavitation determines the drought response of three temperate tree species. AOB PLANTS 2019; 11:plz058. [PMID: 31649812 PMCID: PMC6802943 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plz058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2019] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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How the mortality and growth of tree species vary with the iso-anisohydric continuum and xylem vulnerability is still being debated. We conducted a precipitation reduction experiment to create a mild drought condition in a forest in the Baotianman Mountains, China, a sub-humid region. Three main sub-canopy tree species in this region were examined. After rainfall reduction, Lindera obtusiloba showed severe dieback, but two other co-occurring species did not show dieback. The water potential at stomatal closure of Dendrobenthamia japonica, L. obtusiloba and Sorbus alnifolia was -1.70, -2.54 and -3.41 MPa, respectively, whereas the water potential at 88 % loss in hydraulic conductivity of the three species was -2.31, -2.11 and -7.01 MPa, respectively. Taken together, near-anisohydric L. obtusiloba with vulnerable xylem was highly susceptible to drought dieback. Anisohydric S. alnifolia had the most negative minimum water potential, and its xylem was the most resistant to cavitation. Isohydric D. japonica conserved water by rapidly closing its stomata. Ultimately, the hydraulic safety margin (HSM) of L. obtusiloba was the smallest among the three species, especially in precipitation-reduced plots. In terms of the stomatal safety margin (SSM), L. obtusiloba was negative, while S. alnifolia and D. japonica were positive. Of the two species without dieback, rainfall reduction decreased growth of D. japonica, but did not influence growth of S. Alnifolia; meanwhile, rainfall reduction led to a decrease of non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) in D. japonica, but an increase in S. alnifolia. It is concluded that HSM as well as SSM allow interpreting the sensitivity of the three sub-canopy species to drought. The drought-induced dieback of L. obtusiloba is determined by the interaction of stomatal behaviour and xylem vulnerability, and the species could be sensitive to climate change-caused drought although still in sub-humid areas. The isohydric/anisohydric degree is associated with NSCs status and growth of plants.
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- Zhicheng Chen
- Institute of New Forestry Technology, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of State Forestry Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- Institute of New Forestry Technology, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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Waite PA, Schuldt B, Mathias Link R, Breidenbach N, Triadiati T, Hennings N, Saad A, Leuschner C. Soil moisture regime and palm height influence embolism resistance in oil palm. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 39:1696-1712. [PMID: 31135930 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpz061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2018] [Revised: 04/29/2019] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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With the prospect of climate change and more frequent El Niño-related dry spells, the drought tolerance of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.), one of the most important tropical crop species, is of major concern. We studied the influence of soil water availability and palm height on the plasticity of xylem anatomy of oil palm fronds and their embolism resistance at well-drained and seasonally flooded riparian sites in lowland Sumatra, Indonesia. We found overall mean P12 and P50 values, i.e., the xylem pressures at 12% or 50% loss of hydraulic conductance, of -1.05 and - 1.86 MPa, respectively, indicating a rather vulnerable frond xylem of oil palm. This matches diurnal courses of stomatal conductance, which in combination with the observed low xylem safety evidence a sensitive water loss regulation. While the xylem anatomical traits vessel diameter (Dh), vessel density and potential hydraulic conductivity (Kp) were not different between the sites, palms in the moister riparian plots had on average by 0.4 MPa higher P50 values than plants in the well-drained plots. This could largely be attributed to differences in palm height between systems. As a consequence, palms of equal height had 1.3 MPa less negative P50 values in the moister riparian plots than in the well-drained plots. While palm height was positively related to P50, Dh and Kp decreased with height. The high plasticity in embolism resistance may be an element of the drought response strategy of oil palm, which, as a monocot, has a relatively deterministic hydraulic architecture. We conclude that oil palm fronds develop a vulnerable water transport system, which may expose the palms to increasing drought stress in a warmer and drier climate. However, the risk of hydraulic failure may be reduced by considerable plasticity in the hydraulic system and the environmental control of embolism resistance, and a presumably large stem capacitance.
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- Pierre-André Waite
- Plant Ecology, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Untere Karspüle 2,Goettingen, Germany
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- Plant Ecology, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Untere Karspüle 2,Goettingen, Germany
- Chair of Ecophysiology and Vegetation Ecology, Julius-von-Sachs-Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Wuerzburg, Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 3, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Plant Ecology, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Untere Karspüle 2,Goettingen, Germany
- Chair of Ecophysiology and Vegetation Ecology, Julius-von-Sachs-Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Wuerzburg, Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 3, Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Department of Forest Genetic and Forest Tree Breeding, Forestry Faculty, Buesgen Institute, University of Goettingen, Buesgenweg 2, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University, Darmaga Campus, Bogor, Indonesia
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- Department of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, Forestry Faculty, Buesgen Institute, University of Goettingen, Buesgenweg 2, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Soil Science, University of Jambi, Jalan Raya Jambi Muara Bulian KM 15 Mandalo Darat, Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia
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- Plant Ecology, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Untere Karspüle 2,Goettingen, Germany
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Kiorapostolou N, Da Sois L, Petruzzellis F, Savi T, Trifilò P, Nardini A, Petit G. Vulnerability to xylem embolism correlates to wood parenchyma fraction in angiosperms but not in gymnosperms. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 39:1675-1684. [PMID: 31211372 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpz068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2019] [Revised: 03/26/2019] [Accepted: 05/17/2019] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Understanding which structural and functional traits are linked to species' vulnerability to embolism formation (P50) may provide fundamental knowledge on plant strategies to maintain an efficient water transport. We measured P50, wood density (WD), mean conduit area, conduit density, percentage areas occupied by vessels, parenchyma cells (PATOT) and fibers (FA) on branches of angiosperm and gymnosperm species. Moreover, we compiled a dataset of published hydraulic and anatomical data to be compared with our results. Species more vulnerable to embolism had lower WD. In angiosperms, the variability in WD was better explained by PATOT and FA, which were highly correlated. Angiosperms with a higher P50 (less negative) had a higher amount of PATOT and total amount of nonstructural carbohydrates. Instead, in gymnosperms, P50 vs PATOT was not significant. The correlation between PATOT and P50 might have a biological meaning and also suggests that the causality of the commonly observed relationship of WD vs P50 is indirect and dependent on the parenchyma fraction. Our study suggests that angiosperms have a potential active embolism reversal capacity in which parenchyma has an important role, while in gymnosperms this might not be the case.
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- Natasa Kiorapostolou
- Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, Università di Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, Legnaro, PD 35020, Italy
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- Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, Università di Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, Legnaro, PD 35020, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, Trieste 34127, Italy
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- Institute for Viticulture and Pomology, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Konrad Lorenz Straße 24, Tulln, Vienna, 3430, Austria
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Biologiche, Farmaceutiche ed Ambientali, Università di Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres 31, Messina 98166, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, Trieste 34127, Italy
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- Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, Università di Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, Legnaro, PD 35020, Italy
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Peng G, Yang D, Liang Z, Li J, Tyree MT. An improved centrifuge method for determining water extraction curves and vulnerability curves in the long-vessel species Robinia pseudoacacia. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2019; 70:4865-4876. [PMID: 31056686 PMCID: PMC6760279 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erz206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Significant improvements to the centrifuge water-extraction method of measuring the percentage loss volume of water (PLV) and corresponding vulnerability curves (VCs) are reported. Cochard and Sperry rotors are both incapable of measuring the VCs of species with long vessels because of premature embolism induced by hypothetical nanoparticles that can be drawn into segments during flow measurement. In contrast, water extraction pushes nanoparticles out of the sample. This study focuses on a long-vessel species, Robinia pseudoacacia, for which many VCs have been constructed by different methods, and the daily water relations have been quantified. PLV extraction curves have dual Weibull curves, and this paper focuses on the second Weibull curve because it involves the extraction of water from vessels, as proven by staining methods. We demonstrate an improved water extraction method after evaporation correction that has accuracy to within 0.5%, shows good agreement with two traditional methods that are slower and less accurate, and is immune to nanoparticle artefacts. Using Poiseuille's Law and the geometry of vessels, we argue that the percentage loss of conductivity (PLC) equals 2PLV-PLV2 in a special case where all vessels, regardless of size, have the same vulnerability curve. In this special case, this equation predicts the data reasonably well.
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- Guoquan Peng
- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
- College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
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- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
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- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
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- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
- College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Center for Nano- and Micro-Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Hammond WM, Yu K, Wilson LA, Will RE, Anderegg WRL, Adams HD. Dead or dying? Quantifying the point of no return from hydraulic failure in drought-induced tree mortality. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 223:1834-1843. [PMID: 31087656 PMCID: PMC6771894 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 05/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Determining physiological mechanisms and thresholds for climate-driven tree die-off could help improve global predictions of future terrestrial carbon sinks. We directly tested for the lethal threshold in hydraulic failure - an inability to move water due to drought-induced xylem embolism - in a pine sapling experiment. In a glasshouse experiment, we exposed loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) saplings (n = 83) to drought-induced water stress ranging from mild to lethal. Before rewatering to relieve drought stress, we measured native hydraulic conductivity and foliar color change. We monitored all measured individuals for survival or mortality. We found a lethal threshold at 80% loss of hydraulic conductivity - a point of hydraulic failure beyond which it is more likely trees will die, than survive, and describe mortality risk across all levels of water stress. Foliar color changes lagged behind hydraulic failure - best predicting when trees had been dead for some time, rather than when they were dying. Our direct measurement of native conductivity, while monitoring the same individuals for survival or mortality, quantifies a continuous probability of mortality risk from hydraulic failure. Predicting tree die-off events and understanding the mechanism involved requires knowledge not only of when trees are dead, but when they begin dying - having passed the point of no return.
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- William M. Hammond
- Plant Biology, Ecology and EvolutionOklahoma State UniversityStillwaterOK74078USA
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- School of Biological SciencesUniversity of UtahSalt Lake CityUT84112USA
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- Plant Biology, Ecology and EvolutionOklahoma State UniversityStillwaterOK74078USA
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and ManagementOklahoma State UniversityStillwaterOK74078USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and ManagementOklahoma State UniversityStillwaterOK74078USA
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- Plant Biology, Ecology and EvolutionOklahoma State UniversityStillwaterOK74078USA
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Drought-Induced Mortality Is Related to Hydraulic Vulnerability Segmentation of Tree Species in a Savanna Ecosystem. FORESTS 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/f10080697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Vulnerability segmentation (VS) has been widely suggested to protect stems and trunks from hydraulic failure during drought events. In many ecosystems, some species have been shown to be non-segmented (NS species). However, it is unclear whether drought-induced mortality is related to VS. To understand this, we surveyed the mortality and recruitment rate and measured the hydraulic traits of leaves and stems as well as the photosynthesis of six tree species over five years (2012–2017) in a savanna ecosystem in Southwest China. Our results showed that the NS species exhibited a higher mortality rate than the co-occurring VS species. Across species, the mortality rate was not correlated with xylem tension at 50% loss of stem hydraulic conductivity (P50stem), but was rather significantly correlated with leaf water potential at 50% loss of leaf hydraulic conductance (P50leaf) and the difference in water potential at 50% loss of hydraulic conductance between the leaves and terminal stems (P50leaf-stem). The NS species had higher Huber values and maximum net photosynthetic rates based on leaf area, which compensated for a higher mortality rate and promoted rapid regeneration under the conditions of dry–wet cycles. To our knowledge, this study is the first to identify the difference in drought-induced mortality between NS species and VS species. Our results emphasize the importance of VS in maintaining hydraulic safety in VS species. Furthermore, the high mortality rate and fast regeneration in NS species may be another hydraulic strategy in regions where severe seasonal droughts are frequent.
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Dória LC, Meijs C, Podadera DS, Del Arco M, Smets E, Delzon S, Lens F. Embolism resistance in stems of herbaceous Brassicaceae and Asteraceae is linked to differences in woodiness and precipitation. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2019; 124:1-14. [PMID: 30590483 PMCID: PMC6676380 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcy233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2018] [Accepted: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Plant survival under extreme drought events has been associated with xylem vulnerability to embolism (the disruption of water transport due to air bubbles in conduits). Despite the ecological and economic importance of herbaceous species, studies focusing on hydraulic failure in herbs remain scarce. Here, we assess the vulnerability to embolism and anatomical adaptations in stems of seven herbaceous Brassicaceae species occurring in different vegetation zones of the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, and merged them with a similar hydraulic-anatomical data set for herbaceous Asteraceae from Tenerife. METHODS Measurements of vulnerability to xylem embolism using the in situ flow centrifuge technique along with light and transmission electron microscope observations were performed in stems of the herbaceous species. We also assessed the link between embolism resistance vs. mean annual precipitation and anatomical stem characters. KEY RESULTS The herbaceous species show a 2-fold variation in stem P50 from -2.1 MPa to -4.9 MPa. Within Hirschfeldia incana and Sisymbrium orientale, there is also a significant stem P50 difference between populations growing in contrasting environments. Variation in stem P50 is mainly explained by mean annual precipitation as well as by the variation in the degree of woodiness (calculated as the proportion of lignified area per total stem area) and to a lesser extent by the thickness of intervessel pit membranes. Moreover, mean annual precipitation explains the total variance in embolism resistance and stem anatomical traits. CONCLUSIONS The degree of woodiness and thickness of intervessel pit membranes are good predictors of embolism resistance in the herbaceous Brassicaceae and Asteraceae species studied. Differences in mean annual precipitation across the sampling sites affect embolism resistance and stem anatomical characters, both being important characters determining survival and distribution of the herbaceous eudicots.
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden University, RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Biology (Botany), La Laguna University, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden University, RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden University, RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Venturas MD, Pratt RB, Jacobsen AL, Castro V, Fickle JC, Hacke UG. Direct comparison of four methods to construct xylem vulnerability curves: Differences among techniques are linked to vessel network characteristics. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2019; 42:2422-2436. [PMID: 30997689 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2019] [Revised: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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During periods of dehydration, water transport through xylem conduits can become blocked by embolism formation. Xylem embolism compromises water supply to leaves and may lead to losses in productivity or plant death. Vulnerability curves (VCs) characterize plant losses in conductivity as xylem pressures decrease. VCs are widely used to characterize and predict plant water use at different levels of water availability. Several methodologies for constructing VCs exist and sometimes produce different results for the same plant material. We directly compared four VC construction methods on stems of black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), a model tree species: dehydration, centrifuge, X-ray-computed microtomography (microCT), and optical. MicroCT VC was the most resistant, dehydration and centrifuge VCs were intermediate, and optical VC was the most vulnerable. Differences among VCs were not associated with how cavitation was induced but were related to how losses in conductivity were evaluated: measured hydraulically (dehydration and centrifuge) versus evaluated from visual information (microCT and optical). Understanding how and why methods differ in estimating vulnerability to xylem embolism is important for advancing knowledge in plant ecophysiology, interpreting literature data, and using accurate VCs in water flux models for predicting plant responses to drought.
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- Martin D Venturas
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112, Utah, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, 93311, California, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, 93311, California, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, 93311, California, USA
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- Department of Biology, California State University Bakersfield, Bakersfield, 93311, California, USA
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- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E3, Canada
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Chen Z, Li S, Luan J, Zhang Y, Zhu S, Wan X, Liu S. Prediction of temperate broadleaf tree species mortality in arid limestone habitats with stomatal safety margins. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 39:1428-1437. [PMID: 30977822 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpz045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Revised: 03/24/2019] [Accepted: 04/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A growing body of evidence highlights the occurrence of increased widespread tree mortality during climate change-associated severe droughts; however, in situ long-term drought experiments with multispecies communities for the prediction of tree mortality and exploration of related mechanisms are rather limited in natural environments. We conducted a 7-year afforestation trial with 20 drought-resistant broadleaf tree species in an arid limestone habitat in northern China, where the species displayed a broad range of survival rates. The stomatal and xylem hydraulic traits of all the species were measured. We found that species' stomatal closure points were strongly related to their xylem embolism resistance and xylem minimum water potential but not to their survival rates. Hydraulic failure of the vascular system appeared to be the main cause of tree mortality, and the stomatal safety margin was a better predictor of tree mortality than the traditionally considered xylem embolism resistance and hydraulic safety margin. We recommend the stomatal safety margin as the indicator for predicting drought-induced tree mortality and for selecting tree species in future forest restorations in arid regions.
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- Zhicheng Chen
- Research Institute of Forestry New Technology, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- Department of Wood Anatomy and Utilization, Research Institute of Wood Industry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Resources and Environment, International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan, Key Laboratory of Bamboo and Rattan Science and Technology, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing, China
- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Lakeshore Road, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
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- Mountain Tai Forest Ecosystem Research Station of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Forestry College of Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
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- Research Institute of Forestry New Technology, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Environment of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
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Rosas T, Mencuccini M, Barba J, Cochard H, Saura-Mas S, Martínez-Vilalta J. Adjustments and coordination of hydraulic, leaf and stem traits along a water availability gradient. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 223:632-646. [PMID: 30636323 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 01/08/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Trait variability in space and time allows plants to adjust to changing environmental conditions. However, we know little about how this variability is distributed and coordinated at different organizational levels. For six dominant tree species in northeastern Spain (three Fagaceae and three Pinaceae) we quantified the inter- and intraspecific variability of a set of traits along a water availability gradient. We measured leaf mass per area (LMA), leaf nitrogen (N) concentration, carbon isotope composition in leaves (δ13 C), stem wood density, the Huber value (Hv, the ratio of cross-sectional sapwood area to leaf area), sapwood-specific and leaf-specific stem hydraulic conductivity, vulnerability to xylem embolism (P50 ) and the turgor loss point (Ptlp ). Differences between families explained the largest amount of variability for most traits, although intraspecific variability was also relevant. Species occupying wetter sites showed higher N, P50 and Ptlp , and lower LMA, δ13 C and Hv. However, when trait relationships with water availability were assessed within species they held only for Hv and Ptlp . Overall, our results indicate that intraspecific adjustments along the water availability gradient relied primarily on changes in resource allocation between sapwood and leaf area and in leaf water relations.
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- Teresa Rosas
- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
- ICREA, 08010, Barcelona, Spain
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- Plant and Soil Sciences Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA
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- INRA, PIAF, Université Clermont-Auvergne, Site de Crouël 5, chemin de Beaulieu, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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Blackman CJ, Creek D, Maier C, Aspinwall MJ, Drake JE, Pfautsch S, O'Grady A, Delzon S, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT, Choat B. Drought response strategies and hydraulic traits contribute to mechanistic understanding of plant dry-down to hydraulic failure. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 39:910-924. [PMID: 30865274 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpz016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2018] [Revised: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Drought-induced tree mortality alters forest structure and function, yet our ability to predict when and how different species die during drought remains limited. Here, we explore how stomatal control and drought tolerance traits influence the duration of drought stress leading to critical levels of hydraulic failure. We examined the growth and physiological responses of four woody plant species (three angiosperms and one conifer) representing a range of water-use and drought tolerance traits over the course of two controlled drought-recovery cycles followed by an extended dry-down. At the end of the final dry-down phase, we measured changes in biomass ratios and leaf carbohydrates. During the first and second drought phases, plants of all species closed their stomata in response to decreasing water potential, but only the conifer species avoided water potentials associated with xylem embolism as a result of early stomatal closure relative to thresholds of hydraulic dysfunction. The time it took plants to reach critical levels of water stress during the final dry-down was similar among the angiosperms (ranging from 39 to 57 days to stemP88) and longer in the conifer (156 days to stemP50). Plant dry-down time was influenced by a number of factors including species stomatal-hydraulic safety margin (gsP90 - stemP50), as well as leaf succulence and minimum stomatal conductance. Leaf carbohydrate reserves (starch) were not depleted at the end of the final dry-down in any species, irrespective of the duration of drought. These findings highlight the need to consider multiple structural and functional traits when predicting the timing of hydraulic failure in plants.
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- Chris J Blackman
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW, Australia
- Department of Biology, University of North Florida, 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW, Australia
- Forest and Natural Resources Management, SUNY-ESF, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY, USA
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW, Australia
- School of Social Science and Psychology (Urban Studies), Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW, Australia
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Vitra A, Deléglise C, Meisser M, Risch AC, Signarbieux C, Lamacque L, Delzon S, Buttler A, Mariotte P. Responses of plant leaf economic and hydraulic traits mediate the effects of early- and late-season drought on grassland productivity. AOB PLANTS 2019; 11:plz023. [PMID: 31065332 PMCID: PMC6499892 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plz023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Drought can occur at different times during the grassland growing season, likely having contrasting effects on forage production when happening early or later in the season. However, knowledge about the interacting effects of the timing of drought and the development stage of the vegetation during the growing season is still scarce, thus limiting our ability to accurately predict forage quantity losses. To investigate plant community responses to drought seasonality (early- vs. late-season), we established a drought experiment in two permanent grasslands of the Swiss Jura Mountains that are used for forage production. We measured three plant functional traits, including two leaf traits related to plant economics (specific leaf area, SLA; leaf dry matter content, LDMC) and one hydraulic trait related to physiological function (predicted percentage loss of hydraulic conductance, PLCp), of the most abundant species, and plant above-ground biomass production. Plant species composition was also determined to calculate community-weighted mean (CWM) traits. First, we observed that CWM trait values strongly varied during the growing season. Second, we found that late-season drought had stronger effects on CWM trait values than early-season drought and that the plant hydraulic trait was the most variable functional trait. Using a structural equation model, we also showed that reduction in soil moisture had no direct impacts on above-ground biomass production. Instead, we observed that the drought-induced decrease in above-ground biomass production was mediated by a higher CWM PLCp (i.e. higher risk of hydraulic failure) and lower CWM SLA under drought. Change in CWM SLA in response to drought was the best predictor of community above-ground biomass production. Our findings reveal the importance of drought timing together with the plant trait responses to assess drought impacts on grassland biomass production and suggest that incorporating these factors into mechanistic models could considerably improve predictions of climate change impacts.
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- Amarante Vitra
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Site Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Agroscope, Grazing Systems Group, Route de Duillier, Nyon, Switzerland
- Université Grenoble Alpes, Irstea, LESSEM, Grenoble, France
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- Agroscope, Grazing Systems Group, Route de Duillier, Nyon, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Community Ecology, Zuercherstrasse, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Site Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Switzerland
- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRA, PIAF, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- ITEIPMAI, Domaine de la Vesc, Montboucher-sur-Jabron, France
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- UMR BIOGECO, INRA–UB, University of Bordeaux 1, Bat, Talence, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Site Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Laboratoire de Chrono-Environnement, UMR CNRS 6249, UFR des Sciences et Techniques, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Switzerland
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Site Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Rodriguez-Zaccaro FD, Valdovinos-Ayala J, Percolla MI, Venturas MD, Pratt RB, Jacobsen AL. Wood structure and function change with maturity: Age of the vascular cambium is associated with xylem changes in current-year growth. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2019; 42:1816-1831. [PMID: 30707440 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Revised: 01/27/2019] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Xylem vessel structure changes as trees grow and mature. Age- and development-related changes in xylem structure are likely related to changes in hydraulic function. We examined whether hydraulic function, including hydraulic conductivity and vulnerability to water-stress-induced xylem embolism, changed over the course of cambial development in the stems of 17 tree species. We compared current-year growth of young (1-4 years), intermediate (2-7 years), and older (3-10 years) stems occurring in series along branches. Diffuse and ring porous species were examined, but nearly all species produced only diffuse porous xylem in the distal branches that were examined irrespective of their mature xylem porosity type. Vessel diameter and length increased with cambial age. Xylem became both more conductive and more cavitation resistant with cambial age. Ring porous species had longer and wider vessels and xylem that had higher conductivity and was more vulnerable to cavitation; however, these differences between porosity types were not present in young stem samples. Understanding plant hydraulic function and architecture requires the sampling of multiple-aged tissues because plants may vary considerably in their xylem structural and functional traits throughout the plant body, even over relatively short distances and closely aged tissues.
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- Department of Biology, California State University, Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California
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- Department of Biology, California State University, Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California
- Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biology, California State University, Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California
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- Department of Biology, California State University, Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California
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