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Claim · model-written summary
Philaenus initiated and rapidly sustained feeding from plants at estimated xylem tension of −10 bar.
- Interactor
- plantsViridiplantaee0host
- Outcome
- initiate feeding, and to feed rapidlye0
- Value
- −10 bare0
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PhilaenusVerbatim
e0“Philaenus , for example, is shown here to initiate feeding, and to feed rapidly, from plants in which the full xylem tension is estimated at −10 bar.”
Title
M. MALONE; R. WATSON; J. PRITCHARD New Phytologist 1999. doi:10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00448.x
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Philaenus cannot feed from subsidiary xylem compartments.
- Mechanism The insect feeds directly from the main transpiration stream at its full hydraulic tension.
- Observation Feeding-pump anatomy appears consistent with feeding at full transpiration-stream tension.
- Recommendation Spittlebugs offer a tool for quasi-noninvasive sampling of the transpiration stream.