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Leaf drought strategy trade-off: water retention vs rehydration

Liu et al.

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Resharing new paper
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🌳We found a weak trade-off: drought resistant trees tend to be less frost-hardy & vice versa 🌡️🔥❄️
🌲💪 Conifers are generally tougher than angiosperms🌺
🧐No "costs" related to fast-slow economics spectrum 🍃🌱
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A new paper in @theplantjournal.bsky.social showing that osmotic adjustment in grapevine is not a function of temperature or water deficit.
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Is it completely an endogenous phenomenon?

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025

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We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Time-travel to the year 1700 to learn about leaf transpiration and about the challenges of time travel. New post on the River to the Sky Substack.
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