Grapevine petioles are more sensitive to drought induced embolism than stems: evidence from in vivo MRI and microcomputed tomography observations of hydraulic vulnerability segmentation

Plant Cell and Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1886-1894

  Hochberg, Uri ^a,b   Albuquerque, Caetano ^c   Rachmilevitch, Shimon ^d   Cochard, Herve ^b   David Schwartz, Rakefet ^e   Brodersen, Craig R ^f   McElrone, Andrew ^c,g   Windt, Carel W ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b PIAF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^f Yale University   (United States)

^g AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^h FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

cavitation; hydraulic conductance; Vitis vinifera; vulnerability curves; xylem

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT STRESS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; LEAF; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TOMOGRAPHY; VINE; VULNERABILITY;

VITIS; VITIS VINIFERA;

WATER;

DROUGHT; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; VITIS; XYLEM;

DROUGHTS; PLANT STEMS; VITIS; WATER; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; XYLEM;

EID: 84958781145     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12688     Document Type: Article

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