ArticleTree physiology2018
Testing the plant pneumatic method to estimate xylem embolism resistance in stems of temperate trees.
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- Lianas in tropical dry seasonal forests have a high hydraulic efficiency but not always a higher embolism resistance than lianas in rainforests.Annals of botany · 2024Article
- Modeling and Analyzing Xylem Vulnerability to Embolism as an Epidemic Process.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Anatomical traits related to leaf and branch hydraulic functioning on Amazonian savanna plants.AoB PLANTS · 2023Article
- Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests.Nature · 2023Article
- Divergence of hydraulic traits among tropical forest trees across topographic and vertical environment gradients in Borneo.The New phytologist · 2022Article
- Importance of hydraulic strategy trade-offs in structuring response of canopy trees to extreme drought in central Amazon.Oecologia · 2021Article
- A User Manual to Measure Gas Diffusion Kinetics in Plants: Pneumatron Construction, Operation, and Data Analysis.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Prediction of hydraulic conductivity loss from relative water loss: new insights into water storage of tree stems and branches.Physiologia plantarum · 2019Article
- Pneumatic Method to Measure Plant Xylem Embolism.Bio-protocol · 2018Article
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Abstract
Methods to estimate xylem embolism resistance generally rely on hydraulic measurements, which can be far from straightforward. Recently, a pneumatic method based on air flow measurements of terminal branch ends was proposed to construct vulnerability curves by linking the amount of air extracted from a branch with the degree of embolism. We applied this novel technique for 10 temperate tree species, including six diffuse, two ring-porous and two gymnosperm species, and compared the pneumatic curves with hydraulic ones obtained from either the flow-centrifuge or the hydraulic-bench dehydration method. We found that the pneumatic method provides a good estimate of the degree of xylem embolism for all angiosperm species. The xylem pressure at 50% and 88% loss of hydraulic conductivity (i.e., Ψ50 and Ψ88) based on the methods applied showed a strongly significant correlation for all eight angiosperms. However, the pneumatic method showed significantly reduced Ψ50 values for the two conifers. Our findings suggest that the pneumatic method could provide a fast and accurate approach for angiosperms due to its convenience and feasibility, at least within the range of embolism resistances covered by our samples.
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