The standard centrifuge method accurately measures vulnerability curves of long-vesselled olive stems

New Phytologist

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 116-127

  Hacke, Uwe G ^a   Venturas, Martin D ^b   Mackinnon, Evan D ^b   Jacobsen, Anna L ^b   Sperry, John S ^c   Pratt, R Brandon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Centrifuge method; Embolism; Hydraulic conductivity; Olea europea (olive); Vessel length; Vulnerability curve; Xylem

Indexed keywords

OLEA EUROPAEA;

WATER;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CENTRIFUGATION; DEHYDRATION; OLIVE TREE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; VACUUM; XYLEM;

CENTRIFUGATION; DEHYDRATION; OLEA; PLANT STEMS; PRESSURE; VACUUM; WATER; XYLEM;

EID: 84912035723     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13017     Document Type: Article

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