Inter‐vessel pitting and cavitation in woody Rosaceae and other vesselled plants: a basis for a safety versus efficiency trade‐off in xylem transport

By James K. Wheeler, J. Sperry, Uwe G Hacke, Nguyen Hoang. 2005

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Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Plant Science

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CAVITATION RESISTANCE AMONG 26 CHAPARRAL SPECIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (2007, background): “However, a more thorough test of this hypothesis requires measuring the pitted area of vessels and vessel length distributions, which was not done in the current study (Wheeler et al. 2005).”
Elegance versus Speed: Examining the Competition between Conifer and Angiosperm Trees (2012, background): “The ‘‘rare pore’’ or ‘‘pit area’’ hypothesis first proposed by Wheeler et al. (2005) argued that the probability of air seeding increases with pit area, because a greater pit area is more likely to give rise to a large pore: the weak link that renders the xylem vulnerable to air seeding.”
Quantifying plasticity in vessel grouping – added value from the image analysis tool ROXAS (2013, background): “…more contact surface, which enhance the risk of cavitation spreading from one vessel to the next by the aspiration of air through the pit pores (Sperry & Tyree 1988; Brodersen 2013; Brodersen et al. 2013) known as air-seeding hypothesis (Alder et al. 1997; Wheeler et al. 2005; Loepfe et al. 2007).”
Patterns and consequences of differential vascular sectoriality in 18 temperate tree and shrub species (2006, background): “While vulnerability to drought-induced embolism should be best related to porosity of the pit membrane (Hacke & Sperry 2001; Tyree & Zimmermann 2002), some evidence suggests a positive relationship between vessel diameter and propensity to embolize during drought (Hargrave et al. 1994; Tyree & Zimme”
Hydraulic Consequences of Vessel Evolution in Angiosperms (2007, methodology): “…measurements of the intervessel pit-area-pervessel surface area (FP) and the vessel surface area estimated as a perfect cylinder, AP ¼ pDLFP: ð2Þ Methods of estimating FL and FP are described in Wheeler et al. (2005) and Hacke et al. (2006), and the conduit length measurement is explained below.”
Water Transport in Vesselless Angiosperms: Conducting Efficiency and Cavitation Safety (2007, methodology): “This prediction is based on the pit area hypothesis, which states that the vulnerability to cavitation by water stress increases with the total area of interconduit pitting per conduit (Wheeler et al. 2005).”
Root traits contributing to plant productivity under drought (2013, background): “…while the total length or surface area of a root system increases or decreases dramatically with relatively small shifts in root diameter, specific root length (SRL; root length per dry mass), specific surface area (SSA; root surface area per dry mass), or proportion of coarse to fine roots.”
Variation of xylem vessel diameters across a climate gradient: insight from a reciprocal transplant experiment with a widespread boreal tree (2015, methodology): “The vessel diameter that corresponds to the average lumen conductivity was calculated as VD = ((∑d4)/n)1/4 , where n is the number of vessels measured, and d is the individual vessel lumen diameter (Tyree, Davis & Cochard 1994; Wheeler et al. 2005).”
VESSEL REDUNDANCY: MODELING SAFETY IN NUMBERS (2007, background): “More recently, the “pit area hypothesis” which currently best explains the tradeoff between hydraulic efficiency and resistance to water stress-induced embolism, supposes the random placement of the largest pores on pit membranes (Wheeler et al. 2005; Choat et al. 2005; Hacke et al. 2006).”
Xylem heterochrony: an unappreciated key to angiosperm origin and diversifications. (2009, background): “…development of growth rings (with latewood of sufficient safety for conduction), thickening of vessel walls and development of suitable vessel length and membrane porousness in lateral vessel walls (Sperry & Hacke, 2004; Wheeler et al., 2005; Sperry et al., 2007; Jansen, Choat & Pletsers, 2009).”
Xylem hydraulic physiology: the functional backbone of terrestrial plant productivity. (2009, background): “attendant costs in terms of functional performance [89] as well as increased structural investment [65].”