No gas source, no problem: pre-existing embolism may affect non-pressure driven embolism spreading in angiosperm xylem by gas diffusion
Running title: Pre-existing embolism may affect embolism spreading
Xinyi Guan1, Luciano Pereira2,3, Scott A. M. McAdam4, Kunfang Cao5,6, Steven Jansen1
1. Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany
2. Laboratory of Plant Physiology “Coaracy M. Franco”, Center R&D in Ecophysiology and Biophysics, Agronomic Institute (IAC), Campinas, Brazil
3. Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, P.O. Box 6109, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas 13083‐970, Brazil
4. Purdue Center for Plant Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, 915 W. State St. West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
5. Plant Ecophysiology and Evolution Group, State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilisation of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China.
6. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China.
* Corresponding author: xinyi.guan@uni-ulm.de