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@ARTICLE{Mllers:915954,
author = {Müllers, Yannik and Postma, Johannes A and Poorter,
Hendrik and van Dusschoten, Dagmar},
title = {{S}tomatal conductance tracks soil-to-leaf hydraulic
conductance in faba bean and maize during soil drying},
journal = {Plant physiology},
volume = {190},
number = {4},
issn = {0032-0889},
address = {Oxford},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
reportid = {FZJ-2022-05811},
pages = {2279 - 2294},
year = {2022},
abstract = {Although regulation of stomatal conductance is widely
assumed to be the most important plant response to soil
drying, the picture is incomplete when hydraulic conductance
from soil to the leaf, upstream of the stomata, is not
considered. Here, we investigated to what extent soil drying
reduces the conductance between soil and leaf, whether this
reduction differs between species, how it affects stomatal
regulation, and where in the hydraulic pathway it occurs. To
this end, we noninvasively and continuously measured the
total root water uptake rate, soil water potential, leaf
water potential, and stomatal conductance of 4-week-old,
pot-grown maize (Zea mays) and faba bean (Vicia faba) plants
during 4 days of water restriction. In both species, the
soil–plant conductance, excluding stomatal conductance,
declined exponentially with soil drying and was reduced to
$50\%$ above a soil water potential of −0.1 MPa, which
is far from the permanent wilting point. This loss of
conductance has immediate consequences for leaf water
potential and the associated stomatal regulation. Both
stomatal conductance and soil–plant conductance declined
at a higher rate in faba bean than in maize. Estimations of
the water potential at the root surface and an incomplete
recovery 22 h after rewatering indicate that the loss of
conductance, at least partly, occurred inside the plants,
for example, through root suberization or altered aquaporin
gene expression. Our findings suggest that differences in
the stomatal sensitivity among plant species are partly
explained by the sensitivity of root hydraulic conductance
to soil drying.},
cin = {IBG-2},
ddc = {580},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118},
pnm = {2171 - Biological and environmental resources for
sustainable use (POF4-217)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2171},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {36099023},
UT = {WOS:000862628300001},
doi = {10.1093/plphys/kiac422},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/915954},
}