Publisher Summary This chapter describes the various aspects of crop water deficits. The
water status of a crop plant is usually defined in terms of its water content, water potential, or …

Publisher Summary The potential for increased irrigation is limited, so that future population
increases will need to be fed from higher food production per unit land area and without the …

A valid representation of intra‐annual wood formation processes in global vegetation
models is vital for assessing climate change impacts on the forest carbon stock. Yet, wood …

The first edition of this book was the first to provide an integrated description of sap
ascension from an anatomical and functional point of view. The second edition opens with …

From the reviews of the 3rd edition:" The textbook of Walter Larcher (...) belongs certainly to
the most successful manuals that ever existed."(Photosynthetica, Czech Republic)"(...) it …

The present volume, Xylem Structure and the Ascent of Sap by MH Zimmermann, very
appropriately inaugurates the Springer Series in Wood Science, an enterprise recently …

Living cells need to be more or less saturated with water to function normally, but they are
usually incomplete in this desirable condition. The two basic parameters which describe the …

Aims: The impact of water deficit stress on vine shoot growth, berry weight, grape
composition and overall vintage quality was investigated in Bordeaux vineyards. Methods …

The relative sensitivity of plant-and soil-based measurements of water availability were
compared for prune trees subjected to a range of irrigation regimes under field conditions …

The pressure chamber has been widely used in the measurement of total water potential
and pressure-volume relations of leaves, twigs and, to a lesser extent, roots. Some of the …