TY  - JOUR
AU  - Abdalla, Mohanned
AU  - Carminati, Andrea
AU  - Cai, Gaochao
AU  - Javaux, Mathieu
AU  - Ahmed, Mutez Ali
TI  - Stomatal closure of tomato under drought is driven by an increase in soil–root hydraulic resistance
JO  - Plant, cell & environment
VL  - 44
IS  - 2
SN  - 0140-7791
CY  - Oxford [u.a.]
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
M1  - FZJ-2021-06013
SP  - 425 - 431
PY  - 2021
AB  - The fundamental question as to what triggers stomatal closure during soil drying remains contentious. Thus, we urgently need to improve our understanding of stomatal response to water deficits in soil and atmosphere. Here, we investigated the role of soil–plant hydraulic conductance (Ksp) on transpiration (E) and stomatal regulation. We used a root pressure chamber to measure the relation between E, leaf xylem water potential (ψleaf-x) and soil water potential (ψsoil) in tomato. Additional measurements of ψleaf-x were performed with unpressurized plants. A soil–plant hydraulic model was used to simulate E(ψleaf-x) for decreasing ψsoil. In wet soils, E(ψleaf-x) had a constant slope, while in dry soils, the slope decreased, with ψleaf-x rapidly and nonlinearly decreasing for moderate increases in E. The ψleaf-x measured in pressurized and unpressurized plants matched well, which indicates that the shoot hydraulic conductance did not decrease during soil drying and that the decrease in Ksp is caused by a decrease in soil–root conductance. The decrease of E matched well the onset of hydraulic nonlinearity. Our findings demonstrate that stomatal closure prevents the drop in ψleaf-x caused by a decrease in Ksp and elucidate a strong correlation between stomatal regulation and belowground hydraulic limitation.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:33150971
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000589761200001
DO  - DOI:10.1111/pce.13939
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/904443
ER  -