Background More than a half century ago, Shinozaki et al.(. A quantitative analysis of plant
form–the pipe model theory. I. Basic analyses. Japanese Journal of Ecology B: 97–105) …

The Science of Grapevines, Third Edition reflects the latest insights into cultivar
relationships, vascular transport, hormone action, and stress responses of grapevines …

Ceramic materials are widely used in engineering field because of their good physical and
chemical properties. The poor mechanical properties of traditional ceramics seriously limit …

The unique, hierarchical patterns of leaf veins have attracted extensive attention in recent
years. However, it remains unclear how biological and mechanical factors influence the …

With wind energy utilization shifting to the deep sea, floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs)
have huge potential to improve the competitiveness of offshore wind energy generation …

Trees present a critical challenge to long-distance transport because as a tree grows in
height and the transport pathway increases in length, the hydraulic resistance of the …

An essential step for the distribution of carbon throughout the whole plant is the loading of
sugars into the phloem in source organs. In many plants, accumulation of sugars in the sieve …

As the single link between leaves and the rest of the plant, petioles must develop conductive
tissues according to the water influx and sugar outflow of the leaf lamina. A scaling …

Maintaining phloem transport under water stress is expected to be crucial to whole-plant
drought tolerance, but the traits that benefit phloem function under drought are poorly …

The structure of leaf veins is typically described by a hierarchical scheme (eg midrib, 1st
order, 2nd order), which is used to predict variation in conduit diameter from one order to …