Direct Measurement of Xylem Pressure in Leaves of Intact Maize Plants. A Test of the Cohesion-Tension Theory Taking Hydraulic Architecture into Consideration

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  • Chunfang Wei
    Department of Botany, Marsh Life Sciences Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05402 (C.W.);
  • Melvin T. Tyree
    United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, 705 Spear Street, Burlington, Vermont 05402 (M.T.T.); and
  • Ernst Steudle
    Lehrstuhl für Pflanzenökologie, Universität Bayreuth, UniversitätStrasse 30, D–95440 Bayreuth, Germany (E.S.)

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The water relations of maize (Zea mays L. cv Helix) were documented in terms of hydraulic architecture and xylem pressure. A high-pressure flowmeter was used to characterize the hydraulic resistances of the root, stalk, and leaves. Xylem pressure measurements were made with a Scholander-Hammel pressure bomb and with a cell pressure probe. Evaporation rates were measured by gas exchange and by gravimetric measurements. Xylem pressure was altered by changing the light intensity, by controlling irrigation, or by gas pressure applied to the soil mass (using a root pressure bomb). Xylem pressure measured by the cell pressure probe and by the pressure bomb agreed over the entire measured range of 0 to −0.7 MPa. Experiments were consistent with the cohesion-tension theory. Xylem pressure changed rapidly and reversibly with changes in light intensity and root-bomb pressure. Increasing the root-bomb pressure increased the evaporation rate slightly when xylem pressure was negative and increased water flow rate through the shoots dramatically when xylem pressure was positive and guttation was observed. The hydraulic architecture model could predict all observed changes in water flow rate and xylem. We measured the cavitation threshold for oil- and water-filled pressure probes and provide some suggestions for improvement.</jats:p>

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  • Plant Physiology

    Plant Physiology 121 (4), 1191-1205, 1999-12-01

    Oxford University Press (OUP)

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