Cavitation in plant conduits only involves two processes of air bubbles: the gradual expansion and elongation, and the explosion event. An explosion event of cavitation, which can only occur in intact conduit at water...
Although it is well known that plants emit acoustic pulses under drought stress,the exact origin of the waveform of these ultrasound pulses has remained elusive.Here,we present evidence for a correlation between the c...
Cavitation in plants is caused by development of air bubbles, which is related to their equilibrium and development. There is a univariate cubic equation for bubble balance. New root formula of this kind of equation w...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51279071,51969009);the Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China for Ph.D candidates in University(Grant No.2013531413002).
In this article,computational fluid dynamics(CFD)are used to explore the dynamics of water transport inside the pitted thickening of a plant xylem vessel.A pitted thickening model combined with the Bernoulli equation ...
Plant can take water from soil up to several metres high. However, the mechanism of how water rises against gravity is still controversially discussed despite a few mechanisms have been proposed. Also, there still lac...
In order to create trees in which cellulose, the most abundant component in biomass, can be enzymatically hydrolyzed highly for the production of bioethanol, we examined the saccharification of xylem from several tran...