Journal
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 42, Issue 7, Pages 2245-2258Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pce.13543
Keywords
hydraulic capacitance; leaf hydraulic conductance; stem hydraulic conductivity; stomatal regulation; wood anatomy
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- NSF [IOS 11-46746]
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The degree of plant iso/anisohydry, a widely used framework for classifying species-specific hydraulic strategies, integrates multiple components of the whole-plant hydraulic pathway. However, little is known about how it associates with coordination of functional and structural traits within and across different organs. We examined stem and leaf hydraulic capacitance and conductivity/conductance, stem xylem anatomical features, stomatal regulation of daily minimum leaf and stem water potential (psi), and the kinetics of stomatal responses to vapour pressure deficit (VPD) in six diverse woody species differing markedly in their degree of iso/anisohydry. At the stem level, more anisohydric species had higher wood density and lower native capacitance and conductivity. Like stems, leaves of more anisohydric species had lower hydraulic conductance; however, unlike stems, their leaves had higher native capacitance at their daily minimum values of leaf psi. Moreover, rates of VPD-induced stomatal closure were related to intrinsic rather than native leaf capacitance and were not associated with species' degree of iso/anisohydry. Our results suggest a trade-off between hydraulic storage and efficiency in the leaf, but a coordination between hydraulic storage and efficiency in the stem along a spectrum of plant iso/anisohydry.
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