Tree shoot bending generates hydraulic pressure pulses: A new long-distance signal?

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1997-2008

  Lopez, Rosana ^a   Badel, Eric ^b,c   Peraudeau, Sebastien ^b,c   Leblanc Fournier, Nathalie ^b,c   Beaujard, François ^b,c   Julien, Jean Louis ^b,c   Cochard, Hervé ^b,c   Moulia, Bruno ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b PIAF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Bending; conductivity; hydraulic; mechanosensing; poroelasticity; pressure; signalling; strain; trees; water; wood

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANGIOSPERM; BIOMECHANICS; CONIFER; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; WOOD; XYLEM;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CONIFEROPHYTA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PLANT SHOOTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 84898998066     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru045     Document Type: Article

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