This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A change occurs in the relationship between xylem water potential (ψx) measured with the pressure chamber and leaf water potential (ψw) when a ...

We investigated the occurrence of freezing-induced cavitation in the evergreen desert shrub Larrea tridentata and compared it to co-occurring, winter-deciduous Prosopis velutina. Field measurements ...

Tyree, Melvin T. and Sperry, John S. 1989. "Vulnerability of Xylem to Cavitation and Embolism." Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, 40 19–38.

Xylem vessel pits are tiny openings on the cell wall of water-conducting cells—with pit geometry influencing crop yield through its effect on plant hydraulics and nitrogen transport. Researchers from ...

The early 2000s were a time of exceptional drought in the American Southwest. The year 2002 in particular was perhaps the driest in the last 500 years, according to tree-ring historical ...