Are needles of Pinus pinaster more vulnerable to xylem embolism than branches? New insights from X-ray computed tomography

Plant Cell and Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 860-870

  Bouche, Pauline S ^a,b,c   Delzon, Sylvain ^b,c   Choat, Brendan ^d   Badel, Eric ^f   Brodribb, Timothy J ^e   Burlett, Regis ^b,c   Cochard, Hervé ^f   Charra Vaskou, Katline ^f   Lavigne, Bruno ^b,c   Li, Shan ^a   Mayr, Stefan ^g   Morris, Hugh ^a   Torres Ruiz, José M ^b,c   Zufferey, Vivian ^h   Jansen, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^h AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conifer; Direct visualization of water content; Embolised tracheids; Hydraulic failures; Wall deformation

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; REACTION KINETICS; REHYDRATION; SEGMENTATION; TOMOGRAPHY; VULNERABILITY; WATER CONTENT; X-RAY; XYLEM;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS PINASTER;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; DEHYDRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; PROCEDURES; TREE; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; XYLEM;

DEHYDRATION; PINUS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREES; XYLEM;

EID: 84961744095     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12680     Document Type: Article

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