Woody tissue photosynthesis in trees: salve on the wounds of drought?

Maurits W Vandegehuchte; Jasper Bloemen; Lidewei L Vergeynst; Kathy Steppe

doi:10.1111/nph.13599

Woody tissue photosynthesis in trees: salve on the wounds of drought?

New Phytol. 2015 Dec;208(4):998-1002. doi: 10.1111/nph.13599. Epub 2015 Jul 30.

Authors

Maurits W Vandegehuchte¹, Jasper Bloemen^{1

2}, Lidewei L Vergeynst¹, Kathy Steppe¹

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Applied Ecology and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
² Institute of Ecology, Research Group Ecophysiology and Ecosystem Processes, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestraβe 15, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.

PMID: 26226885
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13599

No abstract available

Keywords: carbon starvation; cavitation; drought; hydraulic failure; mortality; nonstructural carbohydrates; respiration; woody tissue photosynthesis.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Carbon / metabolism*
Droughts*
Photosynthesis*
Plant Transpiration
Stress, Physiological*
Trees / metabolism
Trees / physiology*
Water*
Wood / physiology*

Substances

Water
Carbon

Grants and funding

M 1757/FWF_/Austrian Science Fund FWF/Austria