No gas source, no problem: proximity to pre-existing embolism
and segmentation affect embolism spreading in angiosperm xylem by gas
diffusion
Xinyi Guan1, Luciano Pereira1,2,3,
Scott A. M. McAdam4, Kunfang Cao5,6,
Steven Jansen1
1. Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University,
Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081, Ulm, Germany
2. Laboratory of Plant Physiology “Coaracy M. Franco”, Center R&D in
Ecophysiology and Biophysics, Agronomic Institute (IAC), Campinas,
Brazil
3. Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Department of Plant Biology, Institute
of Biology, P.O. Box 6109, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas
13083‐970, Brazil
4. Purdue Center for Plant Biology, Department of Botany and Plant
Pathology, Purdue University, 915 W. State St. West Lafayette, IN,
47907, USA.
5. Plant Ecophysiology and Evolution Group, State Key Laboratory for
Conservation and Utilisation of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Guangxi
University, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, China.
6. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation, College of
Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, 530004, China.
* Corresponding author:xinyi.guan@uni-ulm.de
Funding information: The German Research Foundation (DFG, project Nr.
410768178)