The effect of fungal pathogens on the water and carbon economy of trees: implications for drought-induced mortality

Jonàs Oliva; Jan Stenlid; Jordi Martínez-Vilalta

doi:10.1111/nph.12857

The effect of fungal pathogens on the water and carbon economy of trees: implications for drought-induced mortality

New Phytol. 2014 Sep;203(4):1028-1035. doi: 10.1111/nph.12857. Epub 2014 May 13.

Authors

Jonàs Oliva¹, Jan Stenlid¹, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, S-750 07, Uppsala, Sweden.
² CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Barcelona, Spain.

PMID: 24824859
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12857

No abstract available

Keywords: carbon economy; carbon starvation; drought; embolism; hydraulic failure; non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs); tree mortality; trophic interaction.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biological Transport
Carbon / metabolism*
Droughts*
Ecosystem
Plant Diseases / microbiology*
Plant Vascular Bundle / physiology
Trees / immunology
Trees / metabolism
Trees / microbiology*
Water / metabolism*

Substances

Water
Carbon