Analysis of circular bordered pit function II. Gymnosperm tracheids with torus-margo pit membranes

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 386-400

  Hacke, Uwe G ^a   Sperry, John S ^a   Pittermann, Jarmila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional wood anatomy; Hydraulic architecture; Plant biomechanics; Plant water transport; Tracheids; Xylem cavitation; Xylem hydraulic conductivity

Indexed keywords

XYLEM;

GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 1642347120     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.91.3.386     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. ASHBY, M. F., L. J. GIBSON, U. WEGST, AND R. OLIVE. 1995. The mechanical properties of natural materials. I. Material property charts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A 450: 123-140.
2. BAUCH, J. W., W. LIESE, AND R. SCHULTZE. 1972. The morphological variability of the bordered pit membranes in gymnosperms. Wood Science and Technology 6: 165-184.
3. BECKER, P., M. T. TYREE, AND M. TSUDA. 1999. Hydraulic conductances of angiosperms versus conifers: similar transport sufficiency at the whole-plant level. Tree Physiology 19: 445-452.
4. CALKIN, H. W., A. C. GIBSON, AND P. S. NOBEL. 1986. Biophysical model of xylem conductance in tracheids of the fern Pteris vittata. Journal of Experimental Botany 37: 1054-1064.
5. COCHARD, H., F. FROUX, S. MAYR, AND C. COUTAND. 2004. Xylem wall collapse in water-stressed pine needles. Plant Physiology 134: 1-8.
6. COMSTOCK, J. F., AND J. S. SPERRY. 2000. Tansley review no. 119. Some theoretical considerations of optimal conduit length for water transport in plants. New Phytologist 148: 195-218.
7. DAGAN, Z., S. WEIBAUM, AND R. PFEFFER. 1982. An infinite-series solution for the creeping motion through an orifice of finite length. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 115: 505-523.
8. DOMEC, J.-C., AND B. L. GARTNER. 2002. How do water transport and water storage differ in coniferous early wood and latewood? Journal of Experimental Botany 53: 2369-2379.
9. FEILD, T. S., T. BRODRIBB, AND N. M. HOLBROOK. 2002. Hardly a relict: freezing and the evolution of vesselless wood in Winteraceae. Evolution 56: 464-478.
10. GIBSON, A. C., P. J. SCHULTE, AND P. S. NOBEL. 1986. Water-flow and hydraulic conductance in stems of Psilotum nudum. American Journal of Botany 73: 650-650.
11. HACKE, U. G., J. S. SPERRY, B. E. EWERS, D. S. ELLSWORTH, K. V. R. SCHÄFER, AND R. OREN. 2000. Influence of soil porosity on water use in Pinus taeda. Oecologia 124: 495-505.
12. HACKE, U. G., J. S. SPERRY, W. P. POCKMAN, S. D. DAVIS, AND K. A. MCCULLOH. 2001a. Trends in wood density and structure are linked to prevention of xylem implosion by negative pressure. Oecologia 126: 457-461.
13. HACKE, U. G., V. STILLER, J. S. SPERRY, J. PITTERMANN, AND K. A. MCCULLOH. 2001b. Cavitation fatigue: embolism and refilling cycles can weaken cavitation resistance of xylem. Plant Physiology 125: 779-786.
14. HEPWORTH, D. G., AND J. F. V. VINCENT. 1998a. Modelling the mechanical properties of xylem tissue from tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum "Samsun") by considering the importance of molecular and micromechanisms. Annals of Botany 81: 761-770.
15. HEPWORTH, D. G., AND J. F. V. VINCENT. 1998b. The mechanical properties of xylem tissue from tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum "Samsun"). Annals of Botany 81: 751-759.
16. HUBBARD, R. M., V. STILLER, M. G. RYAN, AND J. S. SPERRY. 2001. Stomatal conductance and photosynthesis vary linearly with plant hydraulic conductance in ponderosa pine. Plant, Cell and Environment 24: 113-121.
17. JERONIMIDIS, G. 1980. Wood, one of nature's challenging composites. In J. D. Curry [ed.], The mechanical properties of biological materials, 169-182. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
18. KAVANAGH, K. L., B. J. BOND, S. N. AITKEN, B. L. GARTNER, AND S. KNOWE. 1999. Shoot and root vulnerability to xylem cavitation in four populations of Douglas-fir seedlings. Tree Physiology 19: 31-37.
19. LANCASHIRE, J. R., AND A. R. ENNOS. 2002. Modelling the hydrodynamic resistance of bordered pits. Journal of Experimental Botany 53: 1485-1493.
20. LINTON, M. J., J. S. SPERRY, AND D. G. WILLIAMS. 1998. Limits to water transport in Juniperus osteosperma and Pinus edulis: implications for drought tolerance and regulation of transpiration. Functional Ecology 12: 906-911.
21. MARK, R. E. 1967. Cell wall mechanics of tracheids. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
22. MAYR, S., M. WOLFSCHWENGER, AND H. BAUER. 2002. Winter-drought induced embolism in Norway spruce (Picea abies) at the Alpine timberline. Physiologia Plantarum 115: 74-80.
23. PANSHIN, A. J., AND C. DE ZEEUW. 1970. Textbook of wood technology. McGraw Hill, New York, New York, USA.
24. PETTY, J. A. 1972. The aspiration of bordered pits in conifer wood. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 181: 395-406.
25. POCKMAN, W. T., AND J. S. SPERRY. 2000. Vulnerability to xylem cavitation and the distribution of Sonoran Desert vegetation. American Journal of Botany 87: 1287-1299.
26. SCHULTE, P. J., AND A. C. GIBSON. 1988. Hydraulic conductance and tracheid anatomy in six species of extant seed plants. Canadian Journal of Botany 66: 1073-1079.
27. SCHULTE, P. J., A. C. GIBSON, AND P. S. NOBEL. 1987. Xylem anatomy and hydraulic conductance of Psilotum nudum. American Journal of Botany 74: 1438-1445.
28. SPERRY, J. S., AND U. G. HACKE. 2004. Analysis of circular bordered pit function. I. Angiosperm vessels with homogenous pit membranes. American Journal of Botany 91: 369-385.
29. SPERRY, J. S., AND T. IKEDA. 1997. Xylem cavitation in roots and stems of Douglas-fir and white fir. Tree Physiology 17: 275-280.
30. SPERRY, J. S., K. L. NICHOLS, J. E. M. SULLIVAN, AND S. E. EASTLACK. 1994. Xylem embolism in ring-porous, diffuse-porous, and coniferous trees of northern Utah and interior Alaska. Ecology 75: 1736-1752.
31. SPERRY, J. S., AND M. T. TYREE. 1990. Water-stress-induced xylem embolism in three species of conifers. Plant Cell and Environment 13: 427-436.
32. TIO, K. K., AND S. S. SADHAL. 1994. Boundary conditions for stokes flows near a porous membrane. Applied Scientific Research 52: 1-20.
33. TYREE, M. T., AND M. H. ZIMMERMANN. 2002. Xylem structure and the ascent of sap. Springer, Berlin, Germany.
34. VOGEL, S. 1994. Life in moving fluids: the physical biology of flow. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
35. WHEELER, E. A. 1983. Intervascular pit membranes in Ulmus and Celtis native to the USA. International Association of Wood Anatomists Bulletin 4: 79-88.
36. YOUNG, W. C. 1989. Roark's formulas for stress and strain. McGraw Hill, New York, New York, USA.