Publications by authors named "Victor Flo"
Incorporating photosynthetic acclimation improves stomatal optimisation models.
Plant Cell Environ
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- Stomatal opening in leaves helps regulate carbon and water exchange, crucial for understanding plant responses to climate change.
- New optimality-based models analyze stomatal behavior but often overlook how plants adjust biochemically to drought stress.
- A study on 37 plant species shows that including photosynthetic acclimation in these models significantly improves predictions of carbon assimilation during drought conditions.
Tree water use is central to plant function and ecosystem fluxes. However, it is still unknown how organ-level water-relations traits are coordinated to determine whole-tree water-use strategies in response to drought, and whether this coordination depends on climate. Here we used a global sap flow database (SAPFLUXNET) to study the response of water use, in terms of whole-tree canopy conductance (G), to vapour pressure deficit (VPD) and to soil water content (SWC) for 142 tree species.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpecies flower production and flowering phenology vary from year to year due to extrinsic factors. Inter-annual variability in flowering patterns may have important consequences for attractiveness to pollinators, and ultimately, plant reproductive output. To understand the consequences of flowering pattern variability, a community approach is necessary because pollinator flower choice is highly dependent on flower context.
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