- Linking Auxin with Photosynthetic Rate via Leaf Venation.
Linking Auxin with Photosynthetic Rate via Leaf Venation.
Plant physiology (2017-07-25)
Scott A M McAdam, Morgane P Eléouët, Melanie Best, Timothy J Brodribb, Madeline Carins Murphy, Sam D Cook, Marion Dalmais, Theodore Dimitriou, Ariane Gélinas-Marion, Warwick M Gill, Matthew Hegarty, Julie M I Hofer, Mary Maconochie, Erin L McAdam, Peter McGuiness, David S Nichols, John J Ross, Frances C Sussmilch, Shelley Urquhart
PMID28733387
ABSTRACT
Land plants lose vast quantities of water to the atmosphere during photosynthetic gas exchange. In angiosperms, a complex network of veins irrigates the leaf, and it is widely held that the density and placement of these veins determines maximum leaf hydraulic capacity and thus maximum photosynthetic rate. This theory is largely based on interspecific comparisons and has never been tested using vein mutants to examine the specific impact of leaf vein morphology on plant water relations. Here we characterize mutants at the
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