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@ARTICLE{Zimmermann:58849,
author = {Zimmermann, D. and Westhoff, M. and Zimmermann, G. and
Geßner, P. and Gessner, A. and Wegner, L. H. and Rokitta,
M. and Ache, P. and Schneider, H. and Vásquez, J. A. and
Kruck, W. and Shirley, St. and Jakob, P. and Hedrich, R. and
Bentrup, F.-W. and Bamberg, E. and Zimmermann, U.},
title = {{F}oliar water supply of tall trees: evidence for
mucilage-facilitated moisture uptake from the atmosphere and
the impact on pressure bomb measurements},
journal = {Protoplasma},
volume = {232},
issn = {0033-183X},
address = {Wien},
publisher = {Springer},
reportid = {PreJuSER-58849},
pages = {11 - 34},
year = {2007},
note = {Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012},
abstract = {The water supply to leaves of 25 to 60 m tall trees
(including high-salinity-tolerant ones) was studied. The
filling status of the xylem vessels was determined by xylem
sap extraction (using jet-discharge, gravity-discharge, and
centrifugation) and by (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance
imaging of wood pieces. Simultaneously, pressure bomb
experiments were performed along the entire trunk of the
trees up to a height of 57 m. Clear-cut evidence was found
that the balancing pressure (P(b)) values of leafy twigs
were dictated by the ambient relative humidity rather than
by height. Refilling of xylem vessels of apical leaves
(branches) obviously mainly occurred via moisture uptake
from the atmosphere. These findings could be traced back to
the hydration and rehydration of mucilage layers on the leaf
surfaces and/or of epistomatal mucilage plugs. Xylem vessels
also contained mucilage. Mucilage formation was apparently
enforced by water stress. The observed mucilage-based foliar
water uptake and humidity dependency of the P(b) values are
at variance with the cohesion-tension theory and with the
hypothesis that P(b) measurements yield information about
the relationships between xylem pressure gradients and
height.},
keywords = {Adhesives: metabolism / Atmosphere: chemistry / Dehydration
/ Glycosaminoglycans: metabolism / Gravitation / Magnetic
Resonance Spectroscopy / Plant Leaves: cytology / Plant
Leaves: physiology / Pressure / Trees: cytology / Trees:
physiology / Water: metabolism / Xylem: physiology /
Adhesives (NLM Chemicals) / Glycosaminoglycans (NLM
Chemicals) / Water (NLM Chemicals) / J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-3},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)ICG-3-20090406},
pnm = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
shelfmark = {Plant Sciences / Cell Biology},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:18176835},
UT = {WOS:000252224200002},
doi = {10.1007/s00709-007-0279-2},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/58849},
}