ReviewPlant, cell & environment2022
Catastrophic hydraulic failure and tipping points in plants.
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- Root Hydraulic and Metabolomic Recovery Outpaces Stomatal Reopening in Rewatered Quinoa.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Evolutionary trade-offs under stochastic water stress shape xylem vulnerability to drought.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The dynamics of stomatal closure of Arabidopsis thaliana determined by terahertz spectroscopy and a water transport model.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Translating soil salinity to agricultural salt stress: Key salt-tolerance mechanisms for agrohydrologic models.iScience · 2025Review
- The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Consistent decrease in conifer embolism resistance from the stem apex to base resulting from axial trends in tracheid and pit traits.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Lipid-Coated Nanobubbles in Plants.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Drought response in Arabidopsis displays synergistic coordination between stems and leaves.Journal of experimental botany · 2023Article
- Catastrophic hydraulic failure and tipping points in plants.Plant, cell & environment · 2022Review
- Variations in leaf water status and drought tolerance of dominant tree species growing in multi-aged tropical forests in Thailand.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Water inside plants forms a continuous chain from water in soils to the water evaporating from leaf surfaces. Failures in this chain result in reduced transpiration and photosynthesis and are caused by soil drying and/or cavitation-induced xylem embolism. Xylem embolism and plant hydraulic failure share several analogies to 'catastrophe theory' in dynamical systems. These catastrophes are often represented in the physiological and ecological literature as tipping points when control variables exogenous (e.g., soil water potential) or endogenous (e.g., leaf water potential) to the plant are allowed to vary on time scales much longer than time scales associated with cavitation events. Here, plant hydraulics viewed from the perspective of catastrophes at multiple spatial scales is considered with attention to bubble expansion within a xylem conduit, organ-scale vulnerability to embolism, and whole-plant biomass as a proxy for transpiration and hydraulic function. The hydraulic safety-efficiency tradeoff, hydraulic segmentation and maximum plant transpiration are examined using this framework. Underlying mechanisms for hydraulic failure at fine scales such as pit membranes and cell-wall mechanics, intermediate scales such as xylem network properties and at larger scales such as soil-tree hydraulic pathways are discussed. Understudied areas in plant hydraulics are also flagged where progress is urgently needed.
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