Do karst woody plants control xylem tension to avoid substantial xylem cavitation in the wet season?

Fan, DY; Zhang, SR; Yan, H; Wu, Q; Xu, XW; Wang, XP

Fan, DY (reprint author), Beijing Forestry Univ, Coll Forestry, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China.; Zhang, SR (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China.

FOREST ECOSYSTEMS, 2018; 5 ():

Abstract

BackgroundPlants have been hypothesized to maintain strong control over xylem tension by closing stomata and to operate at a water potential above or ......

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