Embracing 3D Complexity in Leaf Carbon-Water Exchange.

Minh Huynh, Margaret M Barbour, Xinyou Yin, Alex Wu, Paul C Struik, Christine Scoffoni, Lawren Sack, Fulton E Rockwell, Megan L Miller, Grace P John, J Mason Earles, Richard Harwood, Graham D Farquhar, John R Evans, Brendan Choat, F Javier Cano, Florian A Busch, Craig R Brodersen, Thomas N Buckley

Journal: Trends in plant science 2019;24(1):15-24

PMID: 30309727

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Abstract

Leaves are a nexus for the exchange of water, carbon, and energy between terrestrial plants and the atmosphere. Research in recent decades has highlighted the critical importance of the underlying biophysical and anatomical determinants of CO and HO transport, but a quantitative understanding of how detailed 3D leaf anatomy mediates within-leaf transport has been hindered by the lack of a consensus framework for analyzing or simulating transport and its spatial and temporal dynamics realistically, and by the difficulty of measuring within-leaf transport at the appropriate scales. We discuss how recent technological advancements now make a spatially explicit 3D leaf analysis possible, through new imaging and modeling tools that will allow us to address long-standing questions related to plant carbon-water exchange.

Address: School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Equal contribution.; Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, CA 95916, USA; Equal contribution.; School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.; Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Action, ACT 0200, Australia.; Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW 2753, Australia.; University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.; College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA.; Department of Organism and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.; Department of Biological Sciences, California State University Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA.; Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, 6700 AK Wageningen, The Netherlands.; Centre for Plant Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.; University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; www.sydney.edu.au/science/people/margaret.barbour. Electronic address: [email protected].

DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2018.09.005

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MeSH Terms: Biological Transport, Carbon, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Plant Leaves, Water