Variation in hydraulic architecture and gas-exchange in two desert sub-shrubs, Hymenoclea salsola (T. & G.) and Ambrosia dumosa (Payne)

Oecologia ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Comstock
Keyword(s):  
Gas Exchange ◽  
Hydraulic Architecture ◽  
Ambrosia Dumosa

Variability in hydraulic architecture and gas exchange of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) cultivars under well-watered conditions: interactions with leaf size

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Mencuccini ◽  
Jonathan Comstock
Keyword(s):  
Gas Exchange ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
Common Bean ◽  
Water Loss ◽  
Leaf Size ◽  
Hydraulic Conductance ◽  
Hydraulic Architecture ◽  
Greenhouse Study ◽  
Whole Plant ◽  
Leaf Level

In a greenhouse study, 12 common bean cultivars from a wide geographical range were compared for their morphological, gas exchange and hydraulic architecture characters. Cultivars bred for cultivation in hot and dry regions had significantly smaller leaves and crowns, but higher stomatal conductances and transpiration rates per unit of leaf area. Short-term variability in gas exchange rates was confirmed using leaf carbon isotope discrimination. A literature survey showed that, although previously unnoticed, the strong inverse coupling between leaf size and gas exchange rates was present in three other studies using the same set of cultivars. Several measures of ‘leaf-specific hydraulic conductance’ (i.e. for the whole plant and for different parts of the xylem pathway) were also linearly related to rates of water loss, suggesting that the coupling between leaf size and gas exchange was mediated by a hydraulic mechanism. It is possible that breeding for high production in hot regions has exerted a selection pressure to increase leaf-level gas exchange rates and leaf cooling. The associated reductions in leaf size may be explained by the need to maintain equilibrium between whole-plant water loss and liquid-phase hydraulic conductance.

scholarly journals Heterogeneity of gas exchange rates over the leaf surface in tobacco: an effect of hydraulic architecture?

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 804-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREA NARDINI ◽  
EMMANUELLE GORTAN ◽  
MATTEO RAMANI ◽  
SEBASTIANO SALLEO
Keyword(s):  
Gas Exchange ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
Leaf Surface ◽  
Hydraulic Architecture

Mercury gas exchange from aquatic plants

2003 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 1075-1078 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Poissant ◽  
C. Beauvais ◽  
M. Pilote
Keyword(s):  
Gas Exchange ◽  
Aquatic Plants
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