Plants face a fundamental coordination problem: how much carbon to invest in water transport tissues to support a given leaf area. Too little sapwood, and water supply limits photosynthesis; too…Read More >
Huber value
Coordination of plant hydraulic and photosynthetic traits: confronting optimality theory with field measurements.
Recently accepted paper for publication in New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17656 Huiying Xu, Tsinghua University writes: “Close coupling between water loss and CO2 uptake processes lead to the long-observed coordination between hydraulic…Read More >