Water loss regulation to soil drought associated with xylem vulnerability to cavitation in temperate ring-porous and diffuse-porous tree seedlings

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 461-469

  Ogasa, Mayumi ^a,c   Miki, Naoko H ^a   Okamoto, Maria ^a   Yamanaka, Norikazu ^b   Yoshikawa, Ken ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hydraulic conductivity; Leaf shedding; Stomatal conductance; Water potential; Water transport; Xylem structure

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS;

DROUGHT CONDITIONS; LEAF SHEDDING; POTENTIAL MECHANISM; STOMATAL CLOSURES; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; WATER POTENTIAL; WATER TRANSPORT; XYLEM WATER POTENTIAL;

CAVITATION;

CONDUCTIVITY; FORESTRY; HYDRAULICS; SHUTDOWN; TRANSPORT; WATER WAYS; XYLEM;

BETULA PLATYPHYLLA VAR. JAPONICA; CARPINUS TSCHONOSKII; MELIA AZEDARACH; ZELKOVA SERRATA;

EID: 84896393281     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-013-0963-0     Document Type: Article

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