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Water relations of rattans.

Cobb, Alexander Ruggles.

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紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Water relations of rattans./
作者:	Cobb, Alexander Ruggles.
面頁冊數:	233 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-05, Section: B, page: 2406.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05B.
標題:	Biology, Plant Physiology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3217702
ISBN:	9780542692192

Water relations of rattans.
Cobb, Alexander Ruggles.

Water relations of rattans. - 233 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-05, Section: B, page: 2406.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2006.

Rattans have the longest aerial stems of any plant, yet lack secondary growth. As vines, they must convey water to a large area of leaves through a narrow stem. The unusual vascular structure of rattans relative to other palms suggests adaptation to these hydraulic demands. But unlike most other vines, which are optimized for transport, rattans have a modified vascular model that would seem to increase their hydraulic resistance. Their large axial vessels are interconnected only by small transverse vessels. In addition, water is forced to flow through a layer of living parenchyma to reach the leaves. The work presented here examined the consequences of rattans' vascular model for the efficiency and safety of water transport in their stems, based on experiments in Malaysia and Australia on Calamus caesius, Daemonorops sparsiflora, and Calamus caryotoides.

ISBN: 9780542692192Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017865
Biology, Plant Physiology.

Water relations of rattans.
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520 $a Single-vessel and whole stem measurements in the rattan Daemonorops sparsiflora showed that the small transverse vessels separating axial vessels increase the contribution of resistance between vessels in the rattan stem compared to this resistance in most other plants. However, all three study species had sufficiently wide vessels that their stems' area-normalized conductances were as high as those of other tropical vines. The parenchyma layer separating leaf and stem xylem contributed little to the resistance between stem and leaves. Water potential measurements showed that a smaller proportion of the hydraulic resistance between soil and atmosphere occurred in the crown of the rattan Calamus caryotoides than previously measured in the palm Rhapis excelsa. The large area of overlap between metaxylem and protoxylem in the leaf trace may allow a low resistance in spite of the high resistivity of the parenchyma barrier.
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