Concurrent measurements of change in the bark and xylem diameters of trees reveal a phloem-generated turgor signal

New Phytologist

Volumn 198, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1143-1154

  Mencuccini, Maurizio ^a,b   Hölttä, Teemu ^c   Sevanto, Sanna ^d   Nikinmaa, Eero ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark diameter; Canopy photosynthesis; Phloem transport; Phloem water relations; Xylem diameter; Xylem phloem coupling

Indexed keywords

BARK; CONIFEROUS TREE; DIAMETER; PHLOEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSLOCATION; VISCOSITY; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; BARK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FINLAND; HISTOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TREE; XYLEM;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FINLAND; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHLOEM; PINUS; PLANT BARK; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREES; XYLEM;

FINLAND;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84877591292     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12224     Document Type: Article

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