Responses to drought stress in poplar: what do we know and what can we learn?

L Rosso, S Cantamessa, S Bergante, C Biselli… - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
Poplar (Populus spp.) is a high-value crop for wood and biomass production and a model
organism for tree physiology and genomics. The early release, in 2006, of the complete …

Mutually inclusive mechanisms of drought‐induced tree mortality

P Hajek, RM Link, CA Nock, J Bauhus… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Unprecedented tree dieback across Central Europe caused by recent global change‐type
drought events highlights the need for a better mechanistic understanding of drought …

Variation in xylem vulnerability to cavitation shapes the photosynthetic legacy of drought

V Tonet, T Brodribb, I Bourbia - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Increased drought conditions impact tree health, negatively disrupting plant water transport
which, in turn, affects plant growth and survival. Persistent drought legacy effects have been …

In vivo monitoring of drought‐induced embolism in Callitris rhomboidea trees reveals wide variation in branchlet vulnerability and high resistance to tissue death

KM Johnson, C Lucani, TJ Brodribb - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Damage to the plant water transport system through xylem cavitation is known to be a driver
of plant death in drought conditions. However, a lack of techniques to continuously monitor …

Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Non-Structural Carbohydrates in Faxon Fir (Abies fargesii var. faxoniana), Subalpine Mountains of Southwest China

S Pan, SA Anees, X Li, X Yang, X Duan, Z Li - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Non-structural carbohydrates'(NSCs) allocation pattern is closely related to environmental
factors, plant metabolism, and xylem function. At the same time, we know little about whole …

Starch depletion in the xylem and phloem ray parenchyma of grapevine stems under drought

KA Prats, AC Fanton, CR Brodersen, ME Furze - AoB Plants, 2023 - academic.oup.com
While nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) storage can support long-lived woody plants during
abiotic stress, the timing and extent of their use are less understood, as are the thresholds …

Nonstructural carbohydrates predict survival in saplings of temperate trees under carbon stress

FI Piper, P Moreno‐Meynard, A Fajardo - Functional Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nonstructural carbohydrates (NSCs) mediate plant survival when the plant's carbon (C)
balance is negative, suggesting that NSCs could predict plant survival under C stress. To …

Testing the limits of plant drought stress and subsequent recovery in four provenances of a widely distributed subtropical tree species

H Duan, V Resco de Dios, D Wang… - Plant, Cell & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Drought‐induced tree mortality may increase with ongoing climate change. Unraveling the
links between stem hydraulics and mortality thresholds, and the effects of intraspecific …

The rates of starch depletion and hydraulic failure both play a role in drought-induced seedling mortality

S Trueba, NG Muñoz, R Burlett, LJ Lamarque… - Annals of Forest …, 2024 - Springer
Key message The elapsed times to deplete starch concentrations and to reach a null
hydraulic safety margin were related to tree seedling mortality under experimental drought …

Canopy damage during a natural drought depends on species identity, physiology and stand composition

TG Britton, TJ Brodribb, SA Richards, C Ridley… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vulnerability to xylem cavitation is a strong predictor of drought‐induced damage in forest
communities. However, biotic features of the community itself can influence water availability …