Structure-function constraints of tracheid-based xylem: A comparison of conifers and ferns

New Phytologist

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 449-461

  Pittermann, Jarmila ^a   Limm, Emily ^b   Rico, Christopher ^a   Christman, Mairgareth A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Save the Redwoods League   (United States)

^c Institute for Ecohydrology Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Gas exchange; Hydraulic conductivity; Primary xylem; Sporophytes; Xylem evolution

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CAVITATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; DESERT; DROUGHT; FERN; GAS EXCHANGE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PHYLOGENY; RANGE EXPANSION; SPOROPHYTE; TUNDRA; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; CONIFER; DEHYDRATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVOLUTION; FERN; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; XYLEM;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CONIFEROPHYTA; DEHYDRATION; FERNS; PLANT STEMS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; XYLEM;

CONIFEROPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 80053231875     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03817.x     Document Type: Article

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