ArticleBio-protocol2018
Pneumatic Method to Measure Plant Xylem Embolism.
Article in Bio-protocol, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Family imprint reveals basin-wide patterns of Amazon forest embolism resistance.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Stem Xylem Differences in Congeneric Lianas Between Forests Are Unrelated to Hydraulic Safety but Partly Explain Efficiency.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- 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
- Anatomical traits related to leaf and branch hydraulic functioning on Amazonian savanna plants.AoB PLANTS · 2023Article
- Divergence of hydraulic traits among tropical forest trees across topographic and vertical environment gradients in Borneo.The New phytologist · 2022Article
- A User Manual to Measure Gas Diffusion Kinetics in Plants: Pneumatron Construction, Operation, and Data Analysis.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Embolism, the formation of air bubbles in the plant water transport system, has a major impact on plant water relations. Embolism formation in the water transport system of plants disrupts plant water transport capacity, impairing plant functioning and triggering plant mortality. Measuring embolism with traditional hydraulic methods is both time-consuming and requires large amounts of plant material. While the stem hydraulic methods measure loss of xylem hydraulic conductance due to embolism formation, the pneumatic method directly quantifies the amount of emboli inside the xylem as changes in xylem air content. The pneumatic method is an easy and fast (8+ embolism curves per day) method to measure plant embolism requiring minimal plant material. Here, we provide detailed descriptions and recent technical improvements on the pneumatic method.
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