#Drought doesn’t follow one script: trees vary in how they close #stomata, lose conductivity, and regulate #aquaporins🌿💧

📰New paper out in @pplplantarum.bsky.social 🌳

Link to pub-> doi.org/10.1111/ppl....

@irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social

📰New paper out:

Xylem Pit Anatomy and Minimum Leaf Conductance Drive Drought #Mortality in Pinus pinaster🌳

Lunk: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@irnase.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social

🌳Plants adjust #hydraulics under #drought, but not enough.

📰New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by @ramirezval.bsky.social

"Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions"
🔗👉http://t.ly/K-vdy

@irnase.bsky.social

If reaching 10 MPa when measuring water potential with the #Scholander chamber ever scared you 👉🏼meet this double-manometer version—capable of reaching 15 MPa!!!!! ⚠️.

#Mediterranean vegetation can be very demanding. 🌿☀️

(Housed at Faculty of #Biology, Seville)

@leonorac.bsky.social