How reliable are methods to assess xylem vulnerability to cavitation? The issue of 'open vessel' artifact in oaks

Hydraulic failure and repair are not routine in trees

(2013) Hervé Cochard et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

The temporal response to drought in a Mediterranean evergreen tree: comparing a regional precipitation gradient and a throughfall exclusion experiment

(2013) Nicolas K. Martin-StPaul et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Methods for measuring plant vulnerability to cavitation: a critical review

(2013) Hervé Cochard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Recalcitrant vulnerability curves: methods of analysis and the concept of fibre bridges for enhanced cavitation resistance

(2013) JING CAI et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Hydraulics of high-yield orchard trees: a case study of three Malus domestica cultivars

(2013) B. Beikircher et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Untangling the belowground knot

(2013) N. G. Phillips   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Centrifuge technique consistently overestimates vulnerability to water stress-induced cavitation in grapevines as confirmed with high-resolution computed tomography

(2012) A. J. McElrone et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

No evidence for an open vessel effect in centrifuge-based vulnerability curves of a long-vesselled liana (Vitis vinifera)

(2012) Anna L. Jacobsen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Xylem vulnerability to cavitation can be accurately characterised in species with long vessels using a centrifuge method

(2012) M. F. Tobin et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Cenozoic climate change shaped the evolutionary ecophysiology of the Cupressaceae conifers

(2012) J. Pittermann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gas exchange and leaf aging in an evergreen oak: causes and consequences for leaf carbon balance and canopy respiration

(2012) J. Rodriguez-Calcerrada et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Measurements of stem xylem hydraulic conductivity in the laboratory and field

(2012) Peter J. Melcher et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Leaf CO2 efflux is attenuated by acclimation of respiration to heat and drought in a Mediterranean tree

(2011) Jesús Rodríguez-Calcerrada et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

How reliable is the double-ended pressure sleeve technique for assessing xylem vulnerability to cavitation in woody angiosperms?

(2011) Mustapha Ennajeh et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Vulnerability curves by centrifugation: is there an open vessel artefact, and are ‘r’ shaped curves necessarily invalid?

(2011) JOHN S. SPERRY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

What happens when stems are embolized in a centrifuge? Testing the cavitron theory

(2010) Jing Cai et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Change in hydraulic traits of Mediterranean Quercus ilex subjected to long-term throughfall exclusion

(2010) J.-M. Limousin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Insights into xylem vulnerability to cavitation in Fagus sylvatica L.: phenotypic and environmental sources of variability

(2010) S. Herbette et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Long-term transpiration change with rainfall decline in a MediterraneanQuercus ilexforest

(2009) J. M. LIMOUSIN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Hydraulic Failure Defines the Recovery and Point of Death in Water-Stressed Conifers

(2008) T. J. Brodribb et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY