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Leaf Hydraulics
Lawren Sack1 and N. Michele Holbrook2
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Department of Botany, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822;
email: [email protected]
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Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Key Words
aquaporins, cavitation, embolism, stomata, xylem
Abstract
Leaves are extraordinarily variable in form, longevity, venation architecture, and capacity for photosynthetic gas exchange. Much of
this diversity is linked with water transport capacity. The pathways
through the leaf constitute a substantial (≥30%) part of the resistance
to water flow through plants, and thus influence rates of transpiration
and photosynthesis. Leaf hydraulic conductance (Kleaf ) varies more
than 65-fold across species, reflecting differences in the anatomy of
the petiole and the venation architecture, as well as pathways beyond
the xylem through living tissues to sites of evaporation. Kleaf is highly
dynamic over a range of time scales, showing circadian and developmental trajectories, and responds rapidly, often reversibly, to changes
in temperature, irradiance, and water supply. This review addresses
how leaf structure and physiology influence Kleaf , and the mechanisms by which Kleaf contributes to dynamic functional responses at
the level of both individual leaves and the whole plant.
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Contents
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
LEAF HYDRAULIC
CONDUCTANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Relation to Whole-Plant Hydraulic
Conductance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Maximum Leaf Hydraulic
Conductance Across Species
and Life Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PATHWAYS OF WATER
MOVEMENT IN THE LEAF . . .
Water Movement Through Leaf
Xylem: Petiole and Venation . .
Water Movement Outside the
Xylem: Bundle Sheath and
Mesophyll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Partitioning the Leaf Hydraulic
Resistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
COORDINATION OF MAXIMUM
LEAF HYDRAULIC
CONDUCTANCE WITH LEAF
STRUCTURE AND
FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Coordination with Gas Exchange .
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INTRODUCTION
Kleaf : leaf hydraulic
conductance (units
mmol m−2 s−1
MPa−1 )
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The role of the hydraulic system in constraining plant function has long been recognized
(15, 37, 135), but until recently the hydraulic
properties of leaves had received little sustained attention. This is somewhat surprising
given that the leaf constitutes an important
hydraulic bottleneck. Research in previous
decades focused on the question of the major
pathways for water movement across leaves
(14, 38). Current research on leaf hydraulics
continues to elucidate these pathways, as well
as seeks to understand the influence of the water transport pathways on gas exchange rates,
the coordination of hydraulic design with leaf
structural diversity, and the dynamics of leaf
hydraulic conductance, diurnally, over the leaf
lifetime, and in response to multiple environmental factors (Figure 1).
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Coordination with Leaf
Flux-Related Structural Traits .
Independence of Maximum Kleaf
and Traits Related to Leaf Mass
Per Area, or to Leaf Drought
Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
DYNAMICS OF LEAF
HYDRAULICS OVER SHORT
AND LONG TIME SCALES . . . .
Responses of Leaf Hydraulic
Conductance to Dehydration
and Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Responses of Leaf Hydraulic
Conductance to Changes in
Temperature and Irradiance . . . .
Diurnal Rhythms in Leaf
Hydraulic Conductance . . . . . . . .
Trajectories of Leaf Hydraulic
Conductance During
Development and Leaf Aging . .
Plasticity of Leaf Hydraulic
Conductance Across Growing
Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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LEAF HYDRAULIC
CONDUCTANCE
Kleaf is a measure of how efficiently water is
transported through the leaf, determined as
the ratio of water flow rate (Fleaf ) through
the leaf (through the petiole and veins, and
across the living tissues in the leaf to the sites
where water evaporates into the airspaces) to
the driving force for flow, the water potential
difference across the leaf ( leaf ). Kleaf is typically normalized by leaf area (i.e., Fleaf / leaf
is further divided by lamina area; units of
mmol water m−2 s−1 MPa−1 ). Hydraulic conductance is the inverse of resistance, Rleaf . Kleaf
is the more commonly used metric. However,
because resistances are additive in series, Rleaf
is used in discussion of the leaf as a component
of whole-plant resistance, or when partitioning the resistances within the leaf.
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Why does Kleaf have such a strong influence on water movement through the whole
plant? The resistance of open stomata to vapor
diffusion out of the leaf is typically hundreds
of times greater than the hydraulic resistance
to bulk flow of the liquid moving through
the plant (37). Transpiration rates are thus
dictated by this diffusion process, which in
turn depends on the stomatal and boundarylayer conductances and the difference in vapor
pressure between the intercellular air spaces
of the leaf and the atmosphere (Figure 1).
However, the maintenance of open stomata
depends on having a well-hydrated leaf interior, i.e., a high leaf water potential ( leaf ).
From the Ohm’s law analogy for the soilplant-atmosphere continuum (52, 135),
leaf = soil − ρgh − E/K plant,
VPD
E
gb
Irradiance
gs
Ψleaf
Kleaf
Ψstem xylem
Kstem
1.
where E, soil , ρ, g, h, and Kplant represent,
respectively, transpiration rate, soil water potential, the density of water, acceleration due
to gravity, plant height, and the whole-plant
hydraulic conductance. Thus, at a given soil
water supply, leaf declines with higher E, with
a sensitivity that depends on Kplant . For a leaf to
sustain leaf at a level high enough to maintain
stomata open (i.e., for the leaf to maintain a
high E, or a high gs ), Kplant must be sufficiently
high. Consequently, Kplant strongly constrains
plant gas exchange. As shown in the following,
Kleaf is a major determinant of Kplant .
Relation to Whole-Plant Hydraulic
Conductance
Leaves contribute a majority of the hydraulic
resistance to water flow in shoots, and form a
substantial part of the hydraulic resistance in
whole plants (80, 132, 146). For 34 species of
a range of life forms, the leaf, including petiole, contributed on average ≈30% of Rplant
(Rplant = 1/Kplant ) (99). However, there are
cases in which the leaf is reported to contribute up to 80% to 98% of Rplant (23, 80).
Notably, the contribution of Rleaf will vary
with time of day; early in the day, when there
is net water movement from stem storage (48,
Temperature
Water
storage
Kplant
Kroot
Ψsoil
Ksoil
Figure 1
Leaf hydraulic conductance (Kleaf ) as a component in a simplified electronic
circuit analog of the whole-plant system (modified after 52). Ksoil , Kroot ,
Kstem , and Kplant represent, respectively, the hydraulic conductance (inverse
of resistance) of soil, root, stem, and plant; soil , stem xylem , and leaf
represent the water potentials of soil, stem xylem, and leaf; gs , gb , E, and
VPD represent the stomatal and boundary-layer conductances,
transpiration rate, and leaf to air vapor pressure difference. This schema is
much simplified, as leaf will vary across a crown because of height
differences as well as differences in transpiration and hydraulic supply to
different leaves (88, 130). Impacts of microclimate on gs and Kleaf are shown
with red arrows; thus, Kleaf , like gs and gb , is represented as a variable
conductance; decreases in leaf , an internal variable, “drive” declines in
Kleaf via its linkage with increasing xylem tensions.
123), leaves are likely to constitute a higher
proportion of resistance than when water is
obtained directly from the soil (Figure 1).
Additionally, Rleaf changes with temperature,
water supply, and irradiance, and as leaves age
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E: transpiration rate
(units mmol m−2
s−1 )
Ψsoil : soil water
potential (units MPa)
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Ψleaf : leaf water
potential (units MPa)
Kplant : whole-plant
hydraulic
conductance (units
mmol m−2 s−1
MPa−1 )
K max
leaf : maximum
leaf hydraulic
conductance (i.e., for
hydrated leaf; units
mmol m−2 s−1
MPa−1 )
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(see section on Dynamics of Leaf Hydraulics
Over Short and Long Time Scales), and can
thus increase as a proportion of Rplant to become the dominant factor in defining wholeplant water transport capacity.
Maximum Leaf Hydraulic
Conductance Across Species
and Life Forms
PATHWAYS OF WATER
MOVEMENT IN THE LEAF
Measurements of leaf hydraulic conductance
max
for hydrated leaves (K leaf
), made with several methods (103), indicate a dramatic variability across the 107 species so far examined
max
(Figure 2). K leaf
ranges 65-fold from the lowest value (for the fern Adiantum lunulatum;
0.76 mmol m−2 s−1 MPa−1 ) to the highest (for
the tropical tree Macaranga triloba; 49 mmol
max
m−2 s−1 MPa−1 ). K leaf
is highly variable within
a life form, varying by tenfold among coexisting tree species (104), and on average tends
to be lowest for conifers and pteridophytes,
higher for temperate and tropical woody
angiosperms, and highest for crop plants
(Figure 2). The model species Arabidopsis
thaliana and Nicotiana tabacum have moderate
Crop herbs
Tropical woody angiosperms
Temperate woody angiosperms
Conifers
Pteridophytes
All species average
0
10
20
30
40
Leaf hydraulic conductance
(mmol m-2 s-1 MPa -1 )
Figure 2
Leaf hydraulic conductance averaged for contrasting life forms (for
hydrated whole leaves, including petiole, and when possible for fully
illuminated sun leaves; data pooled across plant age and habitat;
pteridophytes, 4 species, 19, 24; conifers, 6 species, 7, 24, 133; temperate
woody angiosperms, 38 species; 1, 24, 34, 47, 63, 64, 81, 83, 92, 99, 102,
106, 130–133, 146; tropical woody angiosperms, 49 species, 7, 16–20, 24,
41, 104, 118, 131, 133; crop herbs, 7 species, 65, 82, 115, 117, 124–126;
all species average for 107 species also includes 2 grass species, 19, 66; and
Arabidopsis, 68) Error bars = 1 SE.
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values of 12 and 26 mmol m−2 s−1 MPa−1 , respectively (68, 115). Interspecific variation in
max
K leaf
reflects differences in the anatomy of the
petiole and venation, as well as pathways beyond the xylem through living tissues to sites
of evaporation.
Water Movement Through Leaf
Xylem: Petiole and Venation
On entering the petiole of a dicotyledonous
leaf, the vascular bundles in the leaf traces
reorganize, differentially supplying midrib
bundles, which branch into the second- and
third-order veins (42, 58). Water exits the major veins into the surrounding tissue, or into
the minor veins, the tracheid-containing fine
veins embedded in the mesophyll (5, 27). In
dicotyledons the minor veins account for the
preponderance of the total vein length (e.g.,
86%–97% in temperate and tropical trees)
(91, 100). Thus, the bulk of transpired water will be drawn out of minor veins, resulting
in the major and minor veins acting approximately in series (99, 146).
Leaf vein systems are enormously variable
in many aspects: in vein arrangement and density; and in the number, size, and geometry
of the vascular bundles in the veins; and of
the xylem conduits within the bundles (97).
These structural characteristics play a critical role in how water is distributed across the
leaf, and thus an increasing number of studmax
ies focus on the relationship of K leaf
to vemax
nation architecture. K leaf
correlates with the
dimensions of conduits in the midrib (1, 3,
79, 100), and for ten species of tropical trees,
correlated strongly with the midrib conductivity calculated from the Poiseuille equation
for the xylem conduits (100). This correlation
does not imply that the midrib is a substantial
constraint on the conductance of the venamax
tion, or on K leaf
, but rather implies a scaling of
hydraulic resistances throughout the leaf (see
below) (100). Higher minor vein density in
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general corresponds to a higher supply capacmax
ity (or K leaf
), not by increasing the conductance through the vein xylem system per se
(34), but rather primarily by increasing the
surface area for exchange of xylem water with
surrounding mesophyll, and reducing the distance through which water travels outside the
xylem (97, 100). By contrast, the arrangement
and density of major veins is not related to
max
K leaf
(100). However, major vein arrangement
plays an essential role in distributing water
equitably across the lamina (97, 150), and redundancy of major veins could buffer the impacts of damage and/or cavitation (discussed
below).
Water Movement Outside the Xylem:
Bundle Sheath and Mesophyll
Water movement pathways outside the xylem
are complex and potentially vary strongly
across species that diverge in leaf mesophyll
anatomy. Important progress has been made
on this critical topic, although a full understanding will likely require new approaches.
Once water leaves the xylem, it enters the
bundle sheath, made up of parenchymatous
cells wrapped around the veins (42). A number of early studies concluded that water exits
the xylem through cell walls, moving around
the bundle sheath protoplasts, because membranes were thought to be too resistive to
occur in the transpirational pathways (e.g.,
12, 13). However, the presence of aquaporins
and the high surface area for water transport
across the membranes of bundle sheath cells
means that intercellular water movement is,
in fact, plausible (53, 68, 102, 112). Indeed,
in some species, water seems constrained to
enter bundle sheath cells by suberized perpendicular walls, a barrier analogous to the
root Casparian strip (60, 136). Dye experiments suggest movement into the bundle
sheath cells; in leaves transpiring a solution
of apoplastic dye, crystals form in the minor
veins (27). Other evidence comes from the
temperature response of measured Kleaf (69,
102) and the recently demonstrated role of
aquaporins (82, but see 68), both consistent
with crossing membranes (see below). The
bundle sheath cells may be a “control center”
in leaf water transport, the locus for the striking temperature and light responses of Kleaf .
What happens to water once it passes out
of the xylem into the bundle sheath and beyond? Although this is clearly a question of
great importance, current evidence remains
indirect. A large portion of the mesophyll volume is airspace, with limited cell-to-cell contact, but spongy mesophyll cells are in contact to a far greater degree than palisade cells,
and thus would seem better suited to conduct water (142, 143). The epidermis has substantial cell-to-cell contact, and water could
move directly there from the minor veins,
in species with bundle sheath extensions—
tightly packed, chloroplast-free cells that connect the bundle sheath that surrounds the minor veins to the epidermides in many species
(70, 145). In those species, the epidermis can
remain hydrated despite having little vertical contact with the photosynthetic mesophyll (59, 138). In species lacking bundle
sheath extensions, water must move across
the mesophyll. Whether water moves principally apoplastically (i.e., in the cell walls),
transcellularly (i.e., crossing membranes), or
symplastically (i.e., cell-to-cell via plasmodesmata) is not yet known, and probably differs among species and conditions. The first
experimental studies on sunflower suggested
that apoplastic movement dominates during
transpiration, and that water crosses mesophyll membranes only during rehydration
or growth (13, 139). However, other experiments showed that movement through symplastic routes was plausible (129, 134); the cell
pressure probe has indicated significant symplastic water transport among mesophyll cells
in succulent Kalanchoë leaves (77).
Finally, there is the question of where
in the leaf water evaporates, important because the resistances in the pathways to those
sites will determine overall Rleaf . Mathematical and physical models predict that evaporation inside the leaf will occur principally
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near the stomata—from surrounding epidermal cells, and/or from the mesophyll directly
above the stomata, and/or from the guard cells
themselves (71, 134). However, such models
do not account for the fact that in at least
several species, the cuticle extends into the
substomatal cavity, potentially reducing evaporation (90 and references therein). An alternative scenario is that most water evaporates
deep within the mesophyll, close to the veins
(13, 14). Circumstantial support for this idea
comes from the fact that the measurement of
resistance to helium diffusion across an amphistomatous leaf equaled about twice that
of water vapor out of the leaf—which travels half the distance (43), suggesting that water begins its diffusion deep within the leaf
(14). A third scenario is that water evaporates relatively evenly throughout the mesophyll (87). This scenario predicts a vapor
diffusion pathway similar to that of CO2 assimilated during photosynthesis (though opposite in direction). Indeed, the computation
of intercellular CO2 concentration using typical photosynthesis systems relies on this assumption (44), as does the use of the pressure bomb to estimate the driving force for
transpiration (103, 146). Where water principally evaporates within the leaf is not clear;
the data from modeling, dye studies, biophysics, and gas exchange measurements do
not provide a coherent story. A definitive answer is likely to require new approaches, such
as the use of in vivo imaging to track changes
in cell dimensions within transpiring leaves
(e.g., 111).
A complete understanding of water flow
pathways will illuminate several important aspects of leaf function, including the enrichment of oxygen isotopes (6), and the response
of stomata to leaf water status. Guard cells
can respond within seconds (93, 95, 98, 114);
their movement depends on cell water potential and turgor pressure, which in turn depends on where precisely the bulk of water
evaporates in the leaf, and on the hydraulic
conductances from the veins to epidermis and
guard cells (e.g., 26, 45). Quantifying these
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parameters should help explain the onset of
patchy behavior of stomata at small scales
(76).
Partitioning the Leaf Hydraulic
Resistance
How is Kleaf determined from these complex
pathways of water movement? This question
is especially important because the way in
which the leaf hydraulic resistance ( = 1/Kleaf )
is partitioned between the xylem and across
the extraxylem pathways will strongly influence the responsiveness of Rleaf to changing
conditions. If the resistance of the leaf xylem
(Rxylem ) is a major component of Rleaf , then
the enormous variation in venation architecture across species could reflect strong differences in Rleaf . That would be very unlikely,
however, if Rxylem were negligible relative to
the extraxylem resistance (Routside xylem ); in that
case, even large relative differences in Rxylem
among species would have little impact on
overall Rleaf . Additionally, the larger Rxylem is,
relative to Routside xylem , the greater the effect
on Rleaf of changes in Rxylem due to environment (e.g., drought-induced cavitation; see
72). Thus, substantial discussion surrounds
the issue of where the major resistances to
water flow occur within leaves (e.g., 34, 47,
82, 102, 104). Some of this controversy resulted from methodological differences, including the failure to take into account the
effect of irradiance on Rleaf (see below) and
the use of treatments to determine Rxylem that
opened up pathways for water to move out
of low-order veins, bypassing conduit endings
and higher-order veins that contain higher resistance; using those methods resulted in estimates of Rxylem as 27% of Rleaf , averaged for the
ten species tested (12, 34, 109, 125, 128–130,
146). Recent studies conducted under high irradiance, in which only minor veins were severed, found Rxylem to be 59% of Rleaf, averaged
for 14 species (47, 82, 102, 104).
The current consensus is that the hydraulic
resistance of the leaf’s xylem is about the same
order as in the extraxylem pathways (47, 79,
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82, 102, 104; but see 34), and that species vary
in their partitioning. Indeed, among tropical trees, the % of Rleaf in the xylem differed significantly between species (ranging
from 26% to 89%); species that establish in
high-light environments had 70% of Rleaf in
the xylem on average, whereas those from
low irradiance had 52% (104). Despite this
variation, across the range of species’ values,
Rxylem , Routside xylem and Rleaf were linearly correlated across species (104). The implications
of this finding are that differences in venation architecture reflect strong differences in
Rleaf , and also that Rleaf will be sensitive to
changes in the conductance of both the xylem
and extraxylem pathways. Indeed, the ratio
of Rxylem to Routside xylem is dynamic. For example, Rxylem will increase if vein xylem embolizes during drought, whereas Routside xylem
changes according to an endogenous circadian rhythm, and also increases under low irradiance (82, 101, 131); both resistances increase at lower temperatures, with Routside xylem
increasing more strongly (69, 102; see
below).
Because leaf vein systems consist of water
movement through a well-defined arrangement of fixed tubes, they should be amenable
to quantitative methods used in the study
of biological (and other) networks (e.g., 8,
34, 66, 102, 140, 147). In the most anatomically explicit model to date, Rxylem is estimated for dicotyledonous leaves by assuming
Poiseuille flow through a network parameterized with measured venation densities and
conduit numbers and dimensions (34). However, contrary to empirical data, which showed
that Rxylem constitutes on average over 50% of
Rleaf (see above), the model suggested from the
xylem conduit measurements that Rxylem was
only ≈2% of Rleaf . Thus, anatomical features
not included in the model, for example, the
resistance to water movement between xylem
conduits, must play an important role (34,
121). Next generation studies will improve
our ability to scale up from anatomical measurements to accurate prediction of venation
network Rxylem .
COORDINATION OF MAXIMUM
LEAF HYDRAULIC
CONDUCTANCE WITH LEAF
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
The coordination of hydraulics with leaf
structure and gas exchange is likely to have
played a critical role in the early evolution of the laminate leaf. Lower CO2 levels
and cooler temperatures during the Devonian would have allowed large leaves to avoid
overheating, but the higher stomatal densities,
which evolved to maintain CO2 assimilation,
would have led to more rapid transpiration
(89) and thus required concomitant increases
in leaf hydraulic capacity (9–11). The coordination among leaf hydraulic supply and demand and leaf form remains a key design element among modern plants.
gs : stomatal
conductance to water
vapor (units mmol
m−2 s−1 )
Coordination with Gas Exchange
Recent work demonstrates correlations across
species between liquid phase (hydraulic) conductances of stems, shoots, or whole plants
and vapor phase (stomatal) conductance (gs )
and maximum rates of gas exchange (e.g.,
3, 54, 57, 73, 74, 80, 110). Consistent with
this matching of hydraulic supply and demand
is the strong coordination across species bemax
tween K leaf
and stomatal pore area per leaf
area, maximum gs , and photosynthetic capacity (3, 19, 24, 99, 104).
What is the basis for the interspecific coordination of leaf hydraulic properties and
gas exchange? The coordination of Kplant (and
Kleaf ) and maximum gs and E would arise
from convergence among species in leaf ,
soil , boundary-layer conductance and leafto-air vapor pressure difference (see Equation
1 and Figure 1) (104). Given that hydraulic
conductances scale through the plant (99),
species would converge also in the water potential of the stem xylem proximal to the leaf
( stem xylem ), the water potential drop across
the leaf ( leaf = leaf − stem xylem ), and
that across the whole plant ( plant = leaf −
soil ; 74). The linkage indicates a “standardization” of water relations among plants of
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a given life form and vegetation type during
peak transpiration, when soil is moist. There is
evidence of strong convergence in water relations parameters leaf , stem xylem , leaf , and
soil during peak transpiration for plants of a
given system in moist soil during the growing season (23, 24, 55, 80, 123). The typically
modest range in these parameters (typically
± <0.5 MPa) occurs despite variation within
a vegetation type in plant size and age, rooting depth and vulnerability to cavitation, as
well as divergence among species in the season during which they manifest peak activity, which would further destabilize the coordination (104). The convergence in is
Table 1 Leaf structural and functional traits, sorted
by putative association with maximum water flux per
area (and Kleaf ), leaf mass per area, or drought
tolerancea across species
Maximum flux-related traits
Leaf hydraulic conductance
Stomatal pore area
Stomatal conductance
Net maximum photosynthesis per area
Leaf midrib xylem conduit diameters
Mesophyll area/leaf area
Thickness of leaf and palisade mesophyll
Leaf chlorophyll concentration per area
Leaf nitrogen concentration per area
Leaf shape (margin dissection)
Leaf water storage capacitance per area
Leaf mass per area-related traits
Leaf density
Leaf thickness
Leaf lifespan
Leaf chlorophyll concentration per mass (negatively
related)
Leaf nitrogen concentration per mass (negatively related)
Leaf water content per mass (negatively related)
Leaf drought tolerance traits
Cuticular conductance (negatively related)
Modulus of elasticity (variably related)
Leaf density (variably related)
Leaf water storage capacitance per area
Osmotic potentials at full and at zero turgor
Resistance to leaf xylem cavitation
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Associations are positive except when noted.
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analogous to the range of household appliances in a given country being designed to
run at a given voltage—from lamps to ovens—
with the current through the appliance dependent on the electric conductance, or
resistance.
The finding of narrowly constrained water relations in a given vegetation type provides a potentially powerful basis for a general relationship between Kleaf and maximum
rates of gas exchange. In addition, increased
understanding of how the coordination of
max
K leaf
and gas exchange shifts across life forms
and habitats will allow prediction of performance differences for plants adapted to different zones around the world. One study so
far has demonstrated that the coordination
between hydraulics and gas exchange varies
among vegetation types: Tropical rainforest
trees as a group have higher potential gas exchange relative to Kleaf than temperate deciduous trees, consistent with their adaptation to
higher leaf and soil , and/or lower VPD during peak activity (104).
Coordination with Leaf Flux-Related
Structural Traits
Leaves vary tremendously in area, thickness,
shape, nutrient concentrations, and capacity for gas exchange. The intercorrelation
of many traits places some bound on this
diversity, for instance among those related
to carbon economy, including leaf mass per
area (LMA; leaf dry mass/area), leaf lifespan
(e.g., 96, 141), and nitrogen concentration per
mass and net maximum photosynthetic rate
per mass (Amass ; 141), and provides a framework for understanding the integrated function of clusters of traits. Similarly, coordination among traits related to water flux through
leaves exists for plants of a particular life
form and habitat (99) (Table 1). In addition
to their higher total maximum stomatal pore
area and gas exchange per area (see above; 3,
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19, 99), leaves with high K leaf
tend to have
wider xylem conduits in the midrib and higher
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venation densities (3, 102). K leaf
correlated
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with palisade thickness, and palisade/spongy
mesophyll ratio for tropical rainforest tree
species (100), and with total leaf thickness
and water storage capacitance per area for
temperate woody species (99). These correlations arose due to structural coordination—
the sharing of an anatomical or developmental basis—and/or due to functional
coordination—the coselection of characters
for benefit in a particular environment (99,
116).
Independence of Maximum Kleaf and
Traits Related to Leaf Mass Per Area,
or to Leaf Drought Tolerance
Certain leaf traits show a disproportionate
number of linkages with other traits (86).
LMA is one such “hub” trait (Table 1). Howmax
ever, K leaf
, a hub trait in its own right (being
linked with many water-flux traits), is unrelated to LMA (Table 1) (20, 78, 99, 104, 133).
Because this complex of water flux–related
traits is coordinated with net maximum photosynthesis per leaf area, which is equal to
LMA in its driving differences in Amass across
species globally (data in 141), and because
Amass generally scales up to whole-plant relative growth rate, water flux–related traits including Kleaf are a potentially fundamental determinant of species performance differences.
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However, K leaf
is apparently independent of
a partially interrelated complex of traits associated with leaf drought tolerance, i.e., the
ability to maintain positive turgor and gas exchange at low leaf (Table 1). These traits are
evidently coselected by desiccating conditions
(85, 107), and include low osmotic potentials
at full and at zero turgor, and low cuticular
conductance (99, 100).
DYNAMICS OF LEAF
HYDRAULICS OVER SHORT
AND LONG TIME SCALES
Kleaf is highly dynamic, varying over a wide
range of time scales, from minutes to months,
and according to microclimate and growing
conditions. The dynamics of Kleaf are typically
closely correlated with those of gas exchange
(Equation 1 and Figure 1) (32, 35, 36, 69,
72). As Kleaf declines (e.g., owing to dehydration), leaf will similarly decline, and stomata
will close as, or before, leaf becomes damaging, leading to reduction of gs and E (32, 108).
In droughted plants such a mechanism operates in tandem with chemical signals from the
roots to close the stomata (36, 39). Associated
declines in intercellular CO2 concentration
(ci ) drive a reduction in photosynthetic rate
(46, 69). Declines in leaf can also directly reduce photosynthetic rate metabolically (40).
Why is Kleaf dynamic, given that its decline
drives such loss of function? Kleaf reduction
during water stress would protect the xylem
by driving stomatal closure, thus alleviating
the tensions in the transpiration stream. Also,
membrane channels important in maintaining a high Kleaf require metabolic energy for
expression and potentially for activation.
LMA: leaf mass per
area (leaf dry
mass/area; units
g m−2 )
Responses of Leaf Hydraulic
Conductance to Dehydration
and Damage
The hydraulic conductance of the petiole
(Kpetiole ) and of the whole leaf declines during drought, correlating in vivo with declines
in gas exchange (Figure 3a) (17–19, 25, 30,
32, 33, 49, 50, 62, 63, 81, 83, 105, 108, 109,
117, 124, 125, 149). An important factor contributing to the decline of Kleaf at low leaf
is xylem cavitation (55, 83, 149). Petioles with
lower conductance take up dye into fewer vessels (25, 149), and dehydrated leaves take up
dye into fewer minor veins in the network (83,
105, 124, 125). The xylem can become increasingly vulnerable with increasing drying
iterations—i.e., “cavitation fatigue,” as shown
in petioles of Aesculus hippocastanum (50).
However, cavitation is not the only potential source of Kleaf decline during dehydration.
Dehydrating conifer leaves decline in Kleaf
owing to collapse of xylem conduits, which
precedes cavitation (21, 33). The potential
collapse of xylem conduits in dicotyledonous
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Ψleaf = -1 MPa
a
Ψleaf = -2 MPa
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b
Leaf measured under low vs. high irradiance
c
Older leaf vs. younger leaf
d
Shade vs. sun leaf
e
Plants grown in low vs. high water supply
Plants grown in 2% vs. 8% daylight
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Mean reduction of leaf hydraulic conductance in
given conditions
Figure 3
Leaf hydraulic conductance is highly dynamic, as shown by the responses depicted here with respect to
controls (color as a proportion of white bars). Note that the averaged responses shown are only
indicative—the responses vary strongly in magnitude according to the particular species and ranges of
conditions observed. (a) Response to branch dehydration (13 species; 17, 19, 63, 83, 124, 125);
(b) response to incident irradiance, during measurement over minutes to hours (14 species; 34, 47, 82,
101, 131); (c) response related to leaf aging (9 tree species; 16, 18, 20, 64, 106); (d ) response to growth
irradiance, including shade vs sun leaves (4 tree species; 99), and leaves of plants grown in 2% versus 8%
daylight (2 species, 41); (e) response to water supply during growth (3 species; 1, 41).
leaves remains to be investigated, as does
the additional possibility of decline in conductance of the extra-xylem paths. A strikingly rapid and complete recovery of Kleaf
during rehydration has been documented after rewatering droughted plants or rehydrating partially dehydrated leaves (62, 63, 75,
124). Such short-term increases in Kleaf result from a diversity of mechanisms. For example, conifers elastically recover their xylem
geometry on rewatering (21, 33), whereas rice
leaves reverse embolism through root pressure (122). Where root pressure is not operating, an active mechanism may exist for
embolism refilling even when xylem tensions
exist, involving ion pumping or transient pressures, associated with increasing starch degradation (25, 124, 149).
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verge in their leaf responses, the extent to
which Kleaf and gs remain coordinated during dehydration varies among species. The
distance between leaf at stomatal closure
( stomatal closure ) and the leaf at which the
xylem is irreversibly embolized is termed the
safety margin (19, 119, 120). In species with
a wide safety margin, the risk is minimal,
as stomata close before Kleaf declines substantially (19, 30, 32, 83). However, in other
species, with a narrow safety margin, gs declines by half only after Kleaf or Kpetiole decline by 20% or more (17–19, 25, 62, 63,
80, 105, 108, 125). High safety margins protect the xylem, but lower safety margins allow plants to maintain gas exchange closer
to the level of irreversible Kleaf decline (19,
120). The decline in Kleaf would confer safety
to the whole-plant hydraulic system by augmenting the decline in leaf , accelerating
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stomatal closure, which would protect portions of the plant that are less easily replaced
(18). The protection conferred will vary according to species, because species differ in
whether whole leaves, petioles, and midribs
are more (17, 22, 28, 49, 84, 105, 108, 125),
equally (33), or less (32, 49, 83, 122) vulnerable to loss of conductance compared with
the stem as leaf declines (and xylem tensions
increase).
One of the most commonly investigated
patterns in stem hydraulics is a trade-off
between hydraulic efficiency (i.e., maximum
hydraulic conductance) and resistance to
drought-induced cavitation (135). This pattern is not found in leaves: The vulnerability of Kleaf to drought is not higher for leaves
max
with high K leaf
. In our analysis of the available data for 13 species of ferns, trees, and
max
herbs varying 42-fold in K leaf
, leaf at 50%
loss of conductivity ranged from –1.3 MPa to
max
–3 MPa, and was uncorrelated withK leaf
(r2
= 0.07; P = 0.4; data of 17, 19, 63, 83, 124,
125).
Kleaf is also reduced by herbivory and other
forms of mechanical vein damage. The interruption of major veins was classically held to
have no effect on leaf function, as leaves often
survive with a perfectly healthy appearance
(29, 91). However, damage that interrupts primary veins in dicotyledonous leaves immediately produces massive declines in Kleaf , and
in gs and photosynthetic rates, which persist weeks later, after the wounded tissue has
scarred over; in some species, the leaves desiccate (4, 51, 81, 98). Whether major vein disruption leads to tissue death or not would depend at least as much on evaporative demand
and on the leaf’s ability to reduce water loss
(i.e., with an impermeable cuticle) as on the
leaf’s vascular architecture. However, redundancy in the venation—such as conduits in
parallel within each vein, and multiple veins
of each order—would buffer Kleaf against both
cavitation and damage, by providing pathways
around damaged or blocked veins (29, 51, 84,
97, 137).
Responses of Leaf Hydraulic
Conductance to Changes in
Temperature and Irradiance
max
K leaf
increases at higher temperatures, as
shown in experiments conducted in vivo, determining gas exchange while manipulating
temperature and controlling other microclimatic variables (46). This increase is only partially accounted for by the direct effects of
temperature on the viscosity of water. Investigation of the temperature response of water
flow through shoots and leaves showed an activation energy of 26–27 kJ mol−1 , but when
minor veins were severed, so that water was
forced through only xylem, the activation energy dropped to ≈17 kJ mol−1 , which corresponds to changes in the viscosity of water (12,
102, 127, 128). Thus, the viscosity response
applies to the xylem pathways, whereas an extraviscosity response applies to the pathways
outside the xylem (102), consistent with the
flow path crossing membranes (68). The temmax
perature induced changes in K leaf
can allow
leaf and gs to remain stable even as E increases
due to higher VPD (46, 69).
max
K leaf
responds strongly to irradiance; for
many species Kleaf is much lower when measured at low irradiance than at high irradiance
(i.e., at <10 μmol photons m−2 s−1 versus at
>1000 μmol photons m−2 s−1 ) (Figure 3b)
(82, 101, 131). The responses vary across
species, and can range up to a several-fold increase from low to high irradiance. The kinetmax
ics of the K leaf
response to irradiance differs
sufficiently from that of stomatal aperture to
suggest that the light response arises in the
hydraulic pathways through the mesophyll
(131), and involves activation of aquaporins
(53, 82, 131). These same channels apparently follow an endogenous circadian rhythm:
max
In sunflower, K leaf
increases up to 60% from
night to day, and the rhythm can be reversed
if photoperiod is switched, and the rhythm
continues for days even when plants are
kept in constant darkness (82). The response
can be removed by treatment with HgCl2 ,
and recovered by using mercaptoethanol,
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implying the agency of aquaporins (82). In
sunflower, dark-acclimated leaves show a
strong light response, but light-acclimated
leaves do not, suggesting that their water
channels are already activated (82). The deactivation of aquaporins in the dark would be
adaptive, assuming the maintenance of activity requires energy expenditure. For plants
kept in the dark for 1 h, or for 4–6 days,
max
K leaf
and shoot hydraulic conductances (measured under high irradiance) were reduced by
20%–75% on average (2, 117). The response
max
of K leaf
to irradiance implies the existence of
a previously unknown level of control of a
plant’s response to environment; this response
would facilitate the increases of stomatal aperture and leaf gas exchange with increasing
irradiance by improving water supply to the
mesophyll.
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Conductance
Kleaf is dynamic diurnally, and its changes
reflect simultaneous responses to multiple
factors. As discussed above, Kleaf follows an
endogenous circadian rhythm; Kleaf also increases with incident light over the scale of
minutes and hours (64, 101, 131). Additionally, Kleaf increases with temperature. By contrast, Kleaf declines as leaves dehydrate under
high midday temperatures and VPD. Thus,
contrasting trends have been observed for the
diurnal response of Kleaf . For sunflower, and
for four tree species, Kleaf increased by up to
two- to threefold over a few hours from morning to midday, as irradiance and temperature
increased, and then declined by evening, in a
similar pattern as g and E (64, 126). On the
other hand, a midday decline in Kleaf by 30%
to 50% has been observed for tree species as
transpiration increased to high rates by midday (18, 83), apparently as a response to leaf
dehydration. Similar diurnal declines in conductance were found for tree petioles and for
flow axially across rice leaves (25, 122, 149).
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urnal responses of Kleaf are likely to reflect the
particular combinations of irradiance, leaf and
air temperature, soil moisture, and VPD, as
well as endogenous rhythms. Thus, one would
expect Kleaf to increase each morning in response to internal cues, as well as increasing
irradiance and temperature; but if E is driven
high enough by a high VPD (and/or if soil is
dry), low leaf would result in significant declines in Kleaf and in gs , recovering by the end
of the day.
Trajectories of Leaf Hydraulic
Conductance During Development
and Leaf Aging
Kleaf is also dynamic over the lifetime of the
leaf. Kleaf increases in developing leaves as
the vasculature matures (1, 20, 67). Weeks
or months after Kleaf reaches its maximum,
it begins to decline, with reductions of up
to 80–90% at abscission (Figure 3c) (1, 16,
18, 64, 100, 106). One factor contributing to
this decline of Kleaf is the accumulation of emboli in the vein xylem, and eventual blockage by tyloses (106, 135). Kleaf would decline
also owing to reduction of the permeability of
cell walls or membranes (see 136). Decreases
in Kleaf would cause progressive dehydration,
potentially contributing to the observed decline in midday leaf as leaves age (16, 65,
106). Reductions in Kleaf are coordinated with
age-related declines in other functional traits,
including leaf nitrogen concentration, stomatal sensitivity to VPD, leaf osmotic potential, and gas exchange (e.g., 56, 94). Some
have hypothesized that the seasonal decline
of Kleaf is a trigger for leaf senescence (16,
106).
Plasticity of Leaf Hydraulic
Conductance Across Growing
Conditions
Although most studies of leaf hydraulics have
been performed on plants in high-resource
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conditions, K leaf
is highly plastic across
growing conditions, owing to developmental
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changes in vein density, conduit sizes or numbers (e.g., 3), and/or in the structure and
conductivity of extraxylem pathways. Leaves
expanded in shade—or in crown positions limax
able to shade—have low K leaf
relative to sun
leaves (Figure 3d) (99, 113), part of the complex of shade leaf characters including lower
vein densities, smaller stomata, thinner leaves,
less dissected leaf shape, and lower rates of
gas exchange (e.g., 61, 144, 148). In mature
max
sunflower plants, K leaf
was linearly related to
irradiance from basal to apical leaves (65); in
this case an irradiance effect combines with
max
an age effect. K leaf
is also plastic across plant
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growing conditions. K leaf
and shoot hydraulic
conductance were lower for plants grown several months in lower irradiance (Figure 3d)
(41), or in lower water or nitrogen supplies
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(Figure 3e) (1–3, 41). Such plasticity in K leaf
runs in parallel with adaptive differences, as
sun-adapted species tend to have several-fold
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higher K leaf
than shade-adapted species on
average, for temperate and tropical species
sets (79, 104). These findings suggest that
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K leaf
plays a potentially important role in determining plant resource responses and also
in determining ecological preferences among
species.
SUMMARY POINTS
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varies at least 65-fold across species, and scales with Kplant ; the leaf is a substantial
1. K leaf
resistance in the plant pathway, 30% and upward of whole-plant resistance.
2. The partitioning of resistances within the leaf among petiole, major veins, minor
veins, and pathways outside the xylem is variable across species. Substantial hydraulic
resistances occur both in the leaf xylem as well as in the flow paths across the mesophyll
to evaporation sites. These components respond differently to ambient conditions,
including irradiance and temperature, indicating an involvement of aquaporins.
max
3. K leaf
is coordinated with maximum gas exchange rates for species of a particular
life form and habitat. This coordination arises from convergence in water relations
max
parameters, especially leaf at peak transpiration. K leaf
is also coordinated with a
framework of other traits related to leaf water flux, including stomatal pore area,
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midrib xylem conduit diameters, and palisade richness. However, K leaf
is independent
of the complex of traits linked with leaf mass per area, and traits relating to leaf drought
tolerance.
4. Kleaf is highly dynamic—varying diurnally, as leaves age, and in response to changes
in leaf hydration, irradiance, temperature, and nutrient supply. The decline in Kleaf in
response to lower leaf arises from reductions in xylem conductivity due to cavitation
or collapse, and/or from changes in the conductivity of the pathways outside the
xylem. Some short-term declines in Kleaf can be rapidly reversed. Dynamic changes
in Kleaf impact gas exchange via stomatal regulation of leaf and could play a role in
leaf senescence.
FUTURE ISSUES
max
is determined by the ve1. Still needed is a fully quantitative understanding of how K leaf
nation architecture and the extraxylem pathways, including the identity and behavior
of aquaporins in these pathways.
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2. The precise correlations that link Kleaf with gas exchange and leaf structure among
species of particular life forms and habitats need to be determined, as well as the
shifts of this coordination across life forms and habitats. The patterns of general
coordination will enable predictions of water relations behavior for whole sets of
species from simply measured hydraulic parameters.
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3. The mechanisms for the diurnal and developmental dynamics of Kleaf , and for the
reversible Kleaf responses to irradiance and to dehydration need to be elucidated in
detail. Understanding the mechanisms behind these changes will enhance the ability
to model the influence of these dynamics on gas exchange over short and long time
scales.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank Kristen Frole for valuable assistance with the data compilation.
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Sugar Sensing and Signaling in Plants: Conserved and Novel
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Filip Rolland, Elena Baena-Gonzalez, and Jen Sheen p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 675
Vitamin Synthesis in Plants: Tocopherols and Carotenoids
Dean DellaPenna and Barry J. Pogson p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 711
Plastid-to-Nucleus Retrograde Signaling
Ajit Nott, Hou-Sung Jung, Shai Koussevitzky, and Joanne Chory p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 739
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The Genetics and Biochemistry of Floral Pigments
Erich Grotewold p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 761
Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in Cellular Responses and
Tolerance to Dehydration and Cold Stresses
Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki and Kazuo Shinozaki p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 781
Pyrimidine and Purine Biosynthesis and Degradation in Plants
Rita Zrenner, Mark Stitt, Uwe Sonnewald, and Ralf Boldt p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 805
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Phytochrome Structure and Signaling Mechanisms
Nathan C. Rockwell, Yi-Shin Su, and J. Clark Lagarias p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 837
Microtubule Dynamics and Organization in the Plant Cortical Array
David W. Ehrhardt and Sidney L. Shaw p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p p 859
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