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