title: I Can See Clearly Now - Embolism in Leaves.
abstract: Deciphering how air enters the plant hydraulic transport tissues represents a major challenge to understanding plant drought responses. Using a non-invasive and cheap visualization technique applied to leaves, the spread of embolism is found to initiate in the midrib, increase with vein order, and is seemingly influenced by vein topology.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 621 Charles E. Young Drive South, Box 951606, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scoffoni
authors.affiliation: Ulm University, Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany. Electronic address: steven.jansen@uni-ulm.de.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jansen
mesh_terms: D000388:Air; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D018547:Plant Stems / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism; D052584:Xylem / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D014867:Water