Measurement of vulnerability to water stress-induced cavitation in grapevine: A comparison of four techniques applied to a long-vesseled species

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1502-1512

  Choat, Brendan ^a   Drayton, William M ^b   Brodersen, Craig ^b   Matthews, Mark A ^b   Shackel, Ken A ^b   Wada, Hiroshi ^b   McElrone, Andrew J ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air injection; Centrifuge; Dehydration; Grapevine; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; Vitis; Vulnerability curves

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CAVITATION; CENTRIFUGE; DEHYDRATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STEM; VINE; VULNERABILITY; WATER STRESS; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; GRAPE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; XYLEM; PROCEDURES; VITIS;

CENTRIFUGATION; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLANT STEMS; VITIS; WATER; XYLEM;

VITACEAE; VITIS; VITIS VINIFERA;

EID: 77954798766     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2010.02160.x     Document Type: Article

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