Tansley Review No. 119

By J. Comstock, J. Sperry. 2000

108 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/45204a6b57321c591ef15a0948168991ab20b6d6

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. J. Sperry
2. Uwe G Hacke
3. Ram Oren
4. F. Kocaçınar
5. J. Comstock
6. R. Sage
7. James K. Wheeler
8. John Grace

In Plant Science

1. J. Sperry
2. Uwe G Hacke
3. James K. Wheeler
4. Ram Oren
5. J. Comstock
6. R. Sage
7. F. Kocaçınar
8. John Grace

Citations in the corpus

• Comparative analysis of end wall resistivity in xylem conduits (2005, background): “Longer conduits increase the impact of embolism on the overall vascular conductance and also facilitate the spread of vascular pathogens (Zimmermann 1983; Comstock & Sperry 2000).”
• Lianas may be favoured by low rainfall: evidence from Ghana (2007, background): “…composed of xylem elements that are longer and wider than those of most trees (Ewers et al. 1990), a feature which can be expected, from theoretical and observational considerations, to make the water within the xylem more likely to cavitate (Comstock and Sperry 2000; Lo Gullo et al. 1995).”
• Water deficits and hydraulic limits to leaf water supply. (2002, background): “In general, the longer the conduits at the site of cavitation, the more substantial the hydraulic limitation for a given K(Ψ) relationship (Comstock & Sperry 2000).”
• Evolution of Water Transport and Xylem Structure (2003, background): “Localizing short conduits to the ends of the flow path prevents cavitation from spreading into major transport arteries where longer con­ duits maximize conductivity (Comstock and Sperry 2000).”
• Functional and Ecological Xylem Anatomy (2015, methodology): “In contrast, if the flow path consists of 10 conduit lengths, then the same point injury of 50% would cause less than 9% loss of whole-plant conductance (Comstock & Sperry 2000).”
• The effect of nutrient enrichment on growth, photosynthesis and hydraulic conductance of dwarf mangroves in Panamá (2004, unknown): “…suggests that availability of P strongly limits cell expansion rates (Grossman & Takahashi 2001), which probably affects the length and width of xylem vessels and the porosity of their pit membranes, properties that determine their hydraulic conductance (Tyree & Ewers 1996; Comstock & Sperry 2000).”
• Photosynthetic pathway alters xylem structure and hydraulic function in herbaceous plants (2003, background): “Cavitation of large vessels increases the probability of catastrophic xylem failure relative to cavitation in small vessels, because the loss of function in a large vessel represents a much greater loss of total transport capacity (Comstock & Sperry 2000; Hacke & Sperry 2001).”
• Leaf phenology is associated with soil water availability and xylem traits in a tropical dry forest (2012, background): “…the mechanistic basis for this difference in K s , a combination of a reduction in vessel length, total pit area and in the proportion of fibers versus parenchyma might be responsible for the increasing resistance to flow in the evergreen species (Comstock and Sperry 2000; Poorter et al. 2010).”