Claim · model-written summary
Mistletoes were more drought tolerant than hosts.
- Taxon
- mistletoese0
- Interactor
- hostse0host
- Outcome
- drought tolerante0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- their hostse0
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Verbatim
e0“mistletoes were more drought tolerant compared with their hosts”
Title
Survival secrets of mistletoes: high drought tolerance in canopy habitats
Xian-Yan Huang; Yun-Bing Zhang; Marina Corrêa Scalon; et al. Tree Physiology 2025. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpaf071
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Observation Mistletoes had more negative midday leaf water potentials during the dry season than hosts.
- Observation Mistletoe turgor loss point ranged from -1.81 to -2.48 MPa and was more negative than in hosts.
- Observation Mistletoe water potential at 12% conductivity loss ranged from -0.97 to -2.94 MPa.
- Observation Mistletoes had higher Huber values, sapwood density and vessel density than hosts.
- Observation Mistletoes had lower leaf size, specific leaf area and vein density than hosts.
- Observation Mistletoes had lower stomatal density than hosts.
- Observation Mistletoes had lower leaf-specific and sapwood-specific hydraulic conductivity and vessel diameter than hosts.
- Observation Mistletoes had lower water-use efficiency, indicated by more negative stable carbon isotope values.
- Association Mistletoes had stronger trait correlations within leaves and between leaf and stem than hosts.
- Association No hydraulic efficiency-safety trade-off was observed across mistletoes and hosts.
- Observation Mistletoe hydraulic traits showed high plasticity across hosts.
- Observation Water potentials at 12%, 50% and 88% conductivity loss varied significantly within mistletoe species across hosts.
- Observation Both intraspecific and interspecific variation drove mistletoe trait correlations.
- Observation Interspecific variation contributed more than intraspecific variation to mistletoe trait correlations.