Water transport in vesselless angiosperms: conducting efficiency and cavitation safety

U Hacke; J Sperry; Taylor Feild; Y Sano; E Sikkema; J Pittermann

doi:10.1086/520724

Water transport in vesselless angiosperms: conducting efficiency and cavitation safety

U Hacke
, J Sperry
, Taylor Feild
, Y Sano
, E Sikkema
, J Pittermann

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Abstract

wo structure-function hypotheses were tested for vesselless angiosperm wood. First, vesselless angiosperm wood should have much higher flow resistance than conifer wood because angiosperm tracheids lack low-resistance torus-margo pits. Second, vesselless wood ought to be exceptionally safe from cavitation if the small cumulative area of pits between tracheids confers safety (the pit area hypothesis).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1113 - 1126
Number of pages	14
Journal	International Journal of Plant Sciences
Volume	168
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/520724
Publication status	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes

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