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Isometric scaling to model water transport in conifer tree rings across time and environments
The hydraulic properties of xylem determine the ability of plants to efficiently and safely provide water to their leaves. These properties are key to understanding plant responses to environmental conditions and evaluating their fate under a rapidly changing climate. However, their assessment is hi...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8006552/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33367718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa595 |
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author | Sviderskaya, Irina V Vaganov, Eugene A Fonti, Marina V Fonti, Patrick |
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description | The hydraulic properties of xylem determine the ability of plants to efficiently and safely provide water to their leaves. These properties are key to understanding plant responses to environmental conditions and evaluating their fate under a rapidly changing climate. However, their assessment is hindered by the challenges of quantifying basic hydraulic components such as bordered pits and tracheids. Here, we use isometric scaling between tracheids and pit morphology to merge partial hydraulic models of the tracheid component and to upscale these properties to the tree-ring level in conifers. Our new model output is first cross-validated with the literature and then applied to cell anatomical measurements from Larix sibirica tree rings formed under harsh conditions in southern Siberia to quantify the intra- and inter-annual variability in hydraulic properties. The model provides a means of assessing how different-sized tracheid components contribute to the hydraulic properties of the ring. Upscaled results indicate that natural inter- and intra-ring anatomical variations have a substantial impact on the tree’s hydraulic properties. Our model facilitates the assessment of important xylem functional attributes because it requires only the more accessible measures of cross-sectional tracheid size. This approach, if applied to dated tree rings, provides a novel way to investigate xylem structure–function relationships across time and environmental conditions. |
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spelling | pubmed-80065522021-04-02 Isometric scaling to model water transport in conifer tree rings across time and environments Sviderskaya, Irina V Vaganov, Eugene A Fonti, Marina V Fonti, Patrick J Exp Bot Research Papers The hydraulic properties of xylem determine the ability of plants to efficiently and safely provide water to their leaves. These properties are key to understanding plant responses to environmental conditions and evaluating their fate under a rapidly changing climate. However, their assessment is hindered by the challenges of quantifying basic hydraulic components such as bordered pits and tracheids. Here, we use isometric scaling between tracheids and pit morphology to merge partial hydraulic models of the tracheid component and to upscale these properties to the tree-ring level in conifers. Our new model output is first cross-validated with the literature and then applied to cell anatomical measurements from Larix sibirica tree rings formed under harsh conditions in southern Siberia to quantify the intra- and inter-annual variability in hydraulic properties. The model provides a means of assessing how different-sized tracheid components contribute to the hydraulic properties of the ring. Upscaled results indicate that natural inter- and intra-ring anatomical variations have a substantial impact on the tree’s hydraulic properties. Our model facilitates the assessment of important xylem functional attributes because it requires only the more accessible measures of cross-sectional tracheid size. This approach, if applied to dated tree rings, provides a novel way to investigate xylem structure–function relationships across time and environmental conditions. Oxford University Press 2020-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8006552/ /pubmed/33367718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa595 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Papers Sviderskaya, Irina V Vaganov, Eugene A Fonti, Marina V Fonti, Patrick Isometric scaling to model water transport in conifer tree rings across time and environments |
title | Isometric scaling to model water transport in conifer tree rings across time and environments |
title_full | Isometric scaling to model water transport in conifer tree rings across time and environments |
title_fullStr | Isometric scaling to model water transport in conifer tree rings across time and environments |
title_full_unstemmed | Isometric scaling to model water transport in conifer tree rings across time and environments |
title_short | Isometric scaling to model water transport in conifer tree rings across time and environments |
title_sort | isometric scaling to model water transport in conifer tree rings across time and environments |
topic | Research Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8006552/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33367718 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa595 |
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