Vascular wilts are among the most destructive plant diseases that occur in annual crops as
well as in woody perennials. These diseases are generally caused by soil-borne bacteria …

Wood performs several essential functions in plants, including mechanically supporting
aboveground tissue, storing water and other resources, and transporting sap. Woody tissues …

Bordered pits are cavities in the lignified cell walls of xylem conduits (vessels and tracheids)
that are essential components in the water‐transport system of higher plants. The pit …

Pit membranes between xylem vessels have been suggested to have functional adaptive
traits because of their influence on hydraulic resistance and vulnerability to embolism in …

Green plants are Earth's primary solar energy collectors. They harvest the energy of the Sun
by converting light energy into chemical energy stored in the bonds of sugar molecules. A …

Drought‐induced xylem embolism is considered to be one of the main factors driving
mortality in woody plants worldwide. Although several structure–functional mechanisms …

The largest part of forest biomass consists of wood. A global estimate of carbon stored in
lignified tissues rises up to 400 Pg. Given these quantities, there is a growing interest of …

Information from the Inside Wood database (5,663 descriptions) was used to determine the
relative abundance of selected IAWA Hardwood List Features, for the whole world and for …

A new classification of the predominantly Neotropical tribe Myrteae is proposed to replace
Berg's three traditional subtribes, the Myrciinae, Eugeniinae, and Myrtinae. Nine subtribes …

The complex inner mechanisms that create typical conifer tree-ring structure (ie the transition
from large, thin-walled earlywood cells to narrow, thick-walled latewood cells) were recently …