Pit membrane structure is highly variable and accounts for a major resistance to water flow through tracheid pits in stems and roots of two boreal conifer species

New Phytologist

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 102-113

  Schulte, Paul J ^a   Hacke, Uwe G ^b   Schoonmaker, Amanda L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NORTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Hydraulic resistance; Pit membrane; Torus margo pits; Xylem

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BOREAL FOREST; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONIFEROUS TREE; FLOW MODELING; FLOW STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; MEMBRANE; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; ROOT; SAP FLOW; STEM; WATER FLOW; XYLEM;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA;

WATER;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONIFER; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEMBRANE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; SPRUCE; WOOD; XYLEM;

CONIFEROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEMBRANES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PICEA; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; WATER; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 84940773076     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13437     Document Type: Article

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