Claim · model-written summary
Leaf function and stem growth fully recovered after drought release, with slower recovery after prolonged stress.
- Taxon
- Pinus radiata
Pinus radiatat0 - Treatment
- prolonged stresse0
- Outcome
- recovery of leaf function and stem growthe0
- Direction
- recovered more slowlye0
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Verbatim
e0“We recorded a complete recovery of leaf function and stem growth in all plants after drought release, but the recovery rate depended on drought duration: plants under prolonged stress recovered more slowly”
t0“Pinus radiata”
Title
Water stress and recovery dynamics of physiological function and growth in juvenile Pinus radiata
Dejan Firm; Damien Sellier; Warren Yorston Tree Physiology 2026. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpag051
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Stomatal conductance returned to control levels after about 1.5 weeks following moderate drought.
- Intervention effect Stomatal conductance returned to control levels after about 2.5 weeks following extended drought.
- Observation Net CO2 assimilation recovered within about 1.5 weeks irrespective of drought duration.
- Observation Cambial activity resumed within days to a week after stem water reserves refilled.
- Observation Growth recovered rapidly even after very low water potentials and nearly two months of neutral or negative carbon balance.
- Observation Wood formation resumed ahead of photosynthetic recovery.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced total radial growth.
- Intervention effect Aboveground biomass gain remained comparable to well watered controls despite drought.
- Observation Post stress growth rates were 1.4 to 2.4 times pre stress rates.