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- 2Ecological wood anatomy
- 1Cavitation
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- 1Vesselless angiosperms
- 1Water transport
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2007
Sikkema, E.H., Field, T., Pittermann, J., Sano, Y., Sperry, J.S., Hacke, U.G.
Two 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...
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2007
Feild, T., Sperry, J.S., Sano, Y., Sikkema, E.H., Hacke, U.G.
We tested two hypotheses for how vessel evolution in angiosperms influenced xylem function. First, the transition to vessels decreased resistance to flow-often considered the driving force for their evolution. Second, the transition to vessels compromised safety from cavitation-a constraint...