Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

This study examines how heat and drought affect leaf VOC emissions and root exudates in Norway spruce saplings, finding synergistic responses under combined stress.

This study links root anatomical gradients and cultivar differences to variations in hydraulic properties in winter wheat using imaging and modeling.

This study shows that tree diversity and strategic spatial planting designs can buffer forests against drought impacts and increase carbon sequestration.

The paper develops a time-dependent hydraulic model to study how plants respond to soil and atmospheric aridity, showing that stomatal conductance is influenced by both supply and demand-side water stress.

This study shows that Norway spruce primarily uses deep soil water during the growing season, with over 50% uptake from 50-70 cm soil layers, increasing to over 80% in 2020.

The paper quantifies seasonal NSC dynamics in a temperate pine forest, finding that soluble sugars drive carbon balance through redistribution rather than storage changes.

The paper uses synchrotron tomography to show diurnal starch fluctuations and osmotic water pumping in pine needle vascular cells, linking starch metabolism to water flow regulation.

The paper measures seasonal changes in stem photosynthesis and respiration in two temperate tree species, finding coordinated variation with growth activity and water status.

The paper examines how photosynthetic capacity, mesophyll conductance stability, and leaf anatomy affect heat and water deficit resilience in cotton species.

This study evaluates process-guided neural networks (PGNNs) and standard ANNs for predicting forest carbon fluxes, showing PGNNs outperform a process model in data-sparse and transfer scenarios.

The paper quantifies leaf minimum conductance (gmin) in 18 tropical forest species to determine its role in dehydration thresholds and drought tolerance strategies.

The paper examines root growth patterns in a temperate grassland under water stress, finding continuous growth except during a dry spring period when growth was limited to daytime.

The paper shows that plant biomass response to annual precipitation depends on how evenly precipitation is distributed within the year.

This study shows that PIP2;1 aquaporin promotes earlier stomatal closure during water stress in grapevines without affecting leaf hydraulic conductance.

The paper explains 60% of global variation in sapwood-to-leaf area ratio using optimality principles linking plant hydraulics and photosynthesis.

This study examines how morphological and heat-tolerance traits relate to tree decline progression and impact, finding no evidence of trait-based vulnerability but identifying feedback loops exacerbating decline under warming.

This paper introduces HydroRoot, a model for simulating root hydraulic architecture, and demonstrates its use in phenotyping root hydraulics across species.

The paper uses a stochastic SI model to simulate embolism propagation in plant xylem networks, reproducing empirical and physiological results without detailed physiological data.

The paper models how secondary growth and exodermal barriers affect root hydraulics in tomato, showing exodermal suberin has little effect with a lignin cap and secondary growth is crucial for maintaining axial conductance.

This paper introduces a model linking ABA regulation to stomatal oscillations and stress memory in Arabidopsis, showing non-linear feedbacks drive these behaviors.

This study shows that soil and atmospheric drought cause early leaf senescence in temperate forests, increasing canopy mortality risk, and identifies drought response types based on senescence patterns and soil conditions.

The paper compares leaf abscission dynamics in temperate tree species, finding that senescence and abscission are distinct and vary in timing across deciduous, brevi-deciduous, and marcescent leaf habits.

This study examines how increased transpiration in an Arabidopsis mutant affects root hydraulic conductivity and plant water balance under osmotic stress.

This study identifies drought response strategies and genetic markers in Siamese rosewood using transcriptomic and environmental data from drought experiments.

This study evaluates how climate differences affect white spruce seed sources' phenology, frost tolerance, and non-structural carbohydrates, informing assisted migration strategies.

The paper measures foliar moisture content in Eucalyptus trees over a 24-hour period and finds FMC recovers to initial levels by 1:30 AM after reaching a minimum at 1:30 PM.

rsofun v5.0 provides a computationally efficient framework for ecosystem process simulation and model-data integration, demonstrating its use in estimating CO2 uptake and uncertainty.

The paper investigates how temperature affects tree seedling growth by analyzing the contributions of photosynthesis, respiration, and carbon allocation processes.

This study shows warming advances growth timing but not necessarily total growth in boreal species, with contrasting responses between evergreen gymnosperms and deciduous angiosperms.

This study measures photorespiration and its temperature response in seven temperate tree species, finding significant interspecific variation and a sharp increase in photorespiratory CO2 loss with temperature.