A Dynamic Optimality Principle for Water Use Strategies Explains Isohydric to Anisohydric Plant Responses to Drought
Abstract
Optimality principles that underlie models of stomatal kinetics require identifying and formulating the gain and the costs involved in opening stomata. While the gain has been linked to larger carbon acquisition, there is still a debate as to the costs that limit stomatal opening. This work presents an Euler-Lagrange framework that accommodates water use strategy and various costs through the formulation of constraints. The reduction in plant hydraulic conductance due to cavitation is added as a new constraint above and beyond the soil hydrological balance and is analyzed for three different types of whole-plant vulnerability curves. Model results show that differences in vulnerability curves alone lead to relatively iso- and aniso-hydric stomatal behavior. Moreover, this framework explains how the presence of competition (biotic or abiotic) for water alters stomatal response to declining soil water content. This contribution corroborates previous research that predicts that a plant's environment (e.g., competition, soil processes) significantly affects its response to drought and supplies the required mathematical machinery to represent this complexity. The method adopted here disentangles cause and effect of the opening and closure of stomata and complements recent mechanistic models of stomatal response to drought.
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[2];
- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States); UMR INRA-ISPA 1391, Gradignan (France)
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- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1579698
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-19-22773
Journal ID: ISSN 2624-893X
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- 89233218CNA000001; NSF-EAR-1344703; NSF-AGS-1644382; NSF-IOS-1754893
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2624-893X
- Publisher:
- Frontiers Media S.A.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; biological science; Earth sciences; drought; dynamic optimality; isohydricity and anisohydricity; photosynthesis; plant hydraulics; stomata; transpiration; water use strategy
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Mrad, Assaad, Sevanto, Sanna Annika, Domec, Jean -Christophe, Liu, Yanlan, Nakad, Mazen, and Katul, Gabriel. A Dynamic Optimality Principle for Water Use Strategies Explains Isohydric to Anisohydric Plant Responses to Drought. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.3389/ffgc.2019.00049.
Mrad, Assaad, Sevanto, Sanna Annika, Domec, Jean -Christophe, Liu, Yanlan, Nakad, Mazen, & Katul, Gabriel. A Dynamic Optimality Principle for Water Use Strategies Explains Isohydric to Anisohydric Plant Responses to Drought. United States. doi:10.3389/ffgc.2019.00049.
Mrad, Assaad, Sevanto, Sanna Annika, Domec, Jean -Christophe, Liu, Yanlan, Nakad, Mazen, and Katul, Gabriel. Wed .
"A Dynamic Optimality Principle for Water Use Strategies Explains Isohydric to Anisohydric Plant Responses to Drought". United States. doi:10.3389/ffgc.2019.00049. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1579698.
@article{osti_1579698,
title = {A Dynamic Optimality Principle for Water Use Strategies Explains Isohydric to Anisohydric Plant Responses to Drought},
author = {Mrad, Assaad and Sevanto, Sanna Annika and Domec, Jean -Christophe and Liu, Yanlan and Nakad, Mazen and Katul, Gabriel},
abstractNote = {Optimality principles that underlie models of stomatal kinetics require identifying and formulating the gain and the costs involved in opening stomata. While the gain has been linked to larger carbon acquisition, there is still a debate as to the costs that limit stomatal opening. This work presents an Euler-Lagrange framework that accommodates water use strategy and various costs through the formulation of constraints. The reduction in plant hydraulic conductance due to cavitation is added as a new constraint above and beyond the soil hydrological balance and is analyzed for three different types of whole-plant vulnerability curves. Model results show that differences in vulnerability curves alone lead to relatively iso- and aniso-hydric stomatal behavior. Moreover, this framework explains how the presence of competition (biotic or abiotic) for water alters stomatal response to declining soil water content. This contribution corroborates previous research that predicts that a plant's environment (e.g., competition, soil processes) significantly affects its response to drought and supplies the required mathematical machinery to represent this complexity. The method adopted here disentangles cause and effect of the opening and closure of stomata and complements recent mechanistic models of stomatal response to drought.},
doi = {10.3389/ffgc.2019.00049},
journal = {Frontiers in Forests and Global Change},
number = ,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {8}
}
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