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ArticlePlant physiology2014

Cavitation Resistance in Seedless Vascular Plants: The Structure and Function of Interconduit Pit Membranes.

Craig Brodersen, Steven Jansen, Brendan Choat, Christopher Rico, Jarmila Pittermann

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Article in Plant physiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Craig BrodersenSchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 (C.B.);Institute for Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany (S.J.);University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, New South Wales 2753, Australia (B.C.); andDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064 (C.R., J.P.).
Steven JansenSchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 (C.B.);Institute for Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany (S.J.);University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, New South Wales 2753, Australia (B.C.); andDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064 (C.R., J.P.).
Brendan ChoatSchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 (C.B.);Institute for Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany (S.J.);University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, New South Wales 2753, Australia (B.C.); andDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064 (C.R., J.P.).
Christopher RicoSchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 (C.B.);Institute for Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany (S.J.);University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, New South Wales 2753, Australia (B.C.); andDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064 (C.R., J.P.).
Jarmila PittermannSchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 (C.B.);Institute for Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany (S.J.);University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, New South Wales 2753, Australia (B.C.); andDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064 (C.R., J.P.) jpitterm@ucsc.edu.
University of California, Santa Cruz · USUniversität Ulm · DEWestern Sydney University · AUYale University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant water transport occurs through interconnected xylem conduits that are separated by partially digested regions in the cell wall known as pit membranes. These structures have a dual function. Their porous construction facilitates water movement between conduits while limiting the spread of air that may enter the conduits and render them dysfunctional during a drought. Pit membranes have been well studied in woody plants, but very little is known about their function in more ancient lineages such as seedless vascular plants. Here, we examine the relationships between conduit air seeding, pit hydraulic resistance, and pit anatomy in 10 species of ferns (pteridophytes) and two lycophytes. Air seeding pressures ranged from 0.8 ± 0.15 MPa (mean ± sd) in the hydric fern Athyrium filix-femina to 4.9 ± 0.94 MPa in Psilotum nudum, an epiphytic species. Notably, a positive correlation was found between conduit pit area and vulnerability to air seeding, suggesting that the rare-pit hypothesis explains air seeding in early-diverging lineages much as it does in many angiosperms. Pit area resistance was variable but averaged 54.6 MPa s m

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