Easy come, easy go: Capillary forces enable rapid refilling of embolized primary xylem vessels

Plant Physiology

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1636-1647

  Rolland, Vivien ^a   Bergstrom, Dana M ^c   Lenné, Thomas ^a   Bryant, Gary ^d   Chen, Hua ^b   Wolfe, Joe ^e   Holbrook, N Michele ^f   Stanton, Daniel E ^a,g   Ball, Marilyn C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZORELLA MACQUARIENSIS; COLOBANTHUS;

WATER;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; APIACEAE; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; CELL WALL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDRODYNAMICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHOOT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XYLEM;

APIACEAE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; CELL WALL; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER; XYLEM;

EID: 84939157909     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00333     Document Type: Article

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