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Epidermis (botany)
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Twenty years of irrigation acclimation is driven by denser canopies and not by plasticity in twig- and needle-level hydraulics in a Pinus sylvestris forest
Charlotte Grossiord, Christoph Bachofen, Eugénie Isabelle Mas, Hervé Cochard, Alice Jacqueline Frédérique Gauthey, Alex Tunas Corzon
Climate change is predicted to increase atmospheric vapor pressure deficit, exacerbating soil drought, and thus enhancing tree evaporative demand and mortality. Yet, few studies have addressed the longer-term drought acclimation strategy of trees, particul ...
Oxford2024Photonic nanostructures mimicking floral epidermis for perovskite solar cells
Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hobeom Kim
Here, we report photonic nanostructures replicated from the adaxial epidermis of flower petals onto light-polymerized coatings using low-cost nanoimprint lithography at ambient temperature. These multifunctional nanocoatings are applied to confer enhanced ...
ELSEVIER2022Above- and below-ground responses to experimental climate forcing in two forb species from montane wooded pastures in Switzerland
Alexandre Buttler, Konstantin Svetlozarov Gavazov
Mountain ecosystems are particularly threatened by ongoing climate change and the species composition of high elevation grasslands is already changing. An open research question is how these ecosystems will adapt to changes in their key environmental const ...
WILEY2022Engineering synthetic adhesins for biophysical investigation and rewiring of host-microbe interactions
Host attachment is often a critical step in the onset of pathogenesis. To attach to host cells, bacteria have evolved a range of adhesins that bind to specific receptors. Some of these adhesins have been thoroughly characterized using biochemical technique ...
EPFL2022Plant wax and carbon isotope response to heat and drought in the conifer Juniperus monosperma
Plant waxes, including n-alkanes, are commonly used for a wide range of paleo-applications. Several common traits of n-alkanes that are used as paleo-proxies include chain length distribution and average chain length (ACL), as well as plant wax carbon and ...
2021Foliar respiration is related to photosynthetic, growth and carbohydrate response to experimental drought and elevated temperature
Short-term plant respiration (R) increases exponentially with rising temperature, but drought could reduce respiration by reducing growth and metabolism. Acclimation may alter these responses. We examined if species with different drought responses would d ...
WILEY2021The response of stomatal conductance to seasonal drought in tropical forests
Stomata regulate CO2 uptake for photosynthesis and water loss through transpiration. The approaches used to represent stomatal conductance (g s) in models vary. In particular, current understanding of drivers of the variation in a key parameter in those mo ...
2020Is desiccation tolerance and avoidance reflected in xylem and phloem anatomy of two coexisting arid-zone coniferous trees?
Plants close their stomata during drought to avoid excessive water loss, but species differ in respect to the drought severity at which stomata close. The stomatal closure point is related to xylem anatomy and vulnerability to embolism, but it also has imp ...
2018Responses of antinomic foliar traits to experimental climate forcing in beech and spruce saplings
Alexandre Buttler, Rodolphe Schlaepfer, Constant Signarbieux
Global warming is predicted to have a strong impact on mountain ecosystems. Subalpine sylvopastoral systems are very sensitive to climate change, which puts their future sustainability at stake. These ecosystems are mostly dominated by spruce and beech, an ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017Ecological response of tree saplings to simulated climate change along an elevational gradient (CLIMARBRE)
María Paula Sanginés De Cárcer
Switzerland will face higher temperature increases than the global average, which will have strong impacts on the mountain ecosystems. How tree species will respond to future climate change scenarios, and what mechanisms will they adopt, remains as a gap o ...
EPFL2017