Plant growth

Plant hydraulics at the heart of plant, crops and ecosystem functions in the face of climate change

Summary Plant hydraulics is crucial for assessing the plants' capacity to extract and transport water from the soil up to their aerial organs. Along with their capacity to exchange water between plant compartments and regulate evaporation, hydraulic …

Leaf vein density enhances vascular redundancy instead of carbon uptake at the expense of increasing water leaks in oaks

Predicting plant growth from functional traits has been a long-term goal of experimental botany. Early studies considered that resource traits align across a single axis, from high to low growth rates. The drivers of nocturnal and cuticular leaf …