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Water transport distance’s effect on tylose development and sap flow in Meili grapevine

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Grape pruning may lead not only to some physical damages to the xylem vessels but also to the tylose blockage in these vessels. However, there is little information on vessel lumens blockage by tylose decreasing the original capability of sap flow transportation. In present studies, to elucidate the effect of tyloses on both water transport during xylem development and variations in hydraulic conductance with increasing distance of water transport, shoots of three different-shaped vines were evaluated in this study, based on observation of tylose developments and sap flow measurements. The study showed that, for different-shaped vines, sap flow transport distance was significantly associated with quantity of tyloses. Vessels of cordon training (CT) vines had the largest percentage of partly and completely blocked vessels among three different-shaped vines, up to 65.4% and 33.2%, respectively. For renewal crawled cordon training (rCCT) and perennial crawled cordon training (pCCT) vines, shoots of perennial branches (pCCT) had a larger percentage of partly and completely blocked vessels (39.7% and 16.7%, respectively) than shoot of current-year shoots (rCCT vines, 35.6% and 9.3%, respectively). Sap flow rates and sap flow transport distances had a negative correlation for sap flow rates of same-shaped vines. In addition, sap flow rates and sap flow transport distances (namely, number of nodes) and/or quantity of tyloses varied during different-shaped vines. Overall, vessels with few tyloses showed significantly higher values of hydraulic conductance than vessels were completely or partially occluded by more tyloses.

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This project was supported by Shandong Province Natural science Fund (ZR2015CL038) and Tai’an city’s Science and Technology Development Project (2017GX0058), and the authors also thank Technology extension service center of forest and fruit industries in Turpan for their kindly support.

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  1. College of Life Sciences and Enology, Taishan University, Taian, 271021, Shandong, China

    Xianhua Zhao & Cuixia Li

  2. Technology Extension Service Center of Forest and Fruit Industries in Turpan, Turpan, 712100, Xinjiang, China

    Liyuan Liu

  3. Shaanxi Engineering Research Center for Viti-Viniculture, Yangling, 838000, Shaanxi, China

    Hua Li

  4. College of Enology, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, 838100, Shaanxi, China

    Hua Li

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XHZ designed the study; XHZ, LYL and CXL conducted laboratory experiments; XHZ and CXL analyzed the data; XHZ and LYL wrote the manuscript; and LYL reviewed the manuscript. HL supervised the research project.

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Zhao, X., Liu, L., Li, C. et al. Water transport distance’s effect on tylose development and sap flow in Meili grapevine. Braz. J. Bot 42, 261–269 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40415-019-00523-4

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