Journal
TREE PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 8, Pages 1438-1445Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpz036
Keywords
cavitation; occlusion; plant hydraulics; tyloses; vascular pathogens; wilt; xylem vessel diameter
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- US Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Specialty Crop Research Initiative [2012-51181-19954]
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Morphological traits of the plant vascular system such as xylem vessel diameter have been implicated in many physiological processes including resistance to drought-induced xylem cavitation and vessel occlusion during infection with vascular wilt diseases. In both events, xylem vessels lose function because they become filled with air or tyloses and gels. Xylem cavitation has been well studied, whereas vessel occlusion remains purely descriptive even though it is a critical response to wounding injuries and compartmentalization of vascular pathogens. The timing of vessel occlusion is a key determinant to a successful compartmentalization of pathogens within the plant vascular system and we hypothesized that xylem vessel diameter is the driving variable. Using a dye injection method coupled with automated image analysis, we parameterized a model to investigate how xylem vessel diameter affects the speed of vessel occlusion in Vitis vinifera L. cv. Cabernet Sauvignon in response to wounding. Our dataset contains observations from 6,646 vessels at five kinetic points following stem pruning, over a time course of 1 week. Using this approach we provide evidence that the diameter of vessels is a key determinant of the timing of their occlusion. We discuss how these findings impact resistance to vascular wilt diseases in perennial woody hosts.
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