Champions of winter survival: cold acclimation and molecular regulation of cold hardiness in evergreen conifers

CYY Chang, K Bräutigam, NPA Hüner… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Evergreen conifers are champions of winter survival, based on their remarkable ability to
acclimate to cold and develop cold hardiness. Counterintuitively, autumn cold acclimation is …

Stable isotopes in tree rings: towards a mechanistic understanding of isotope fractionation and mixing processes from the leaves to the wood

A Gessler, JP Ferrio, R Hommel, K Treydte… - Tree …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The mechanistic understanding of isotope fractionation processes is increasing but we still
lack detailed knowledge of the processes that determine the isotopic composition of the tree …

Turgor–a limiting factor for radial growth in mature conifers along an elevational gradient

RL Peters, K Steppe, HE Cuny, DJW De Pauw… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A valid representation of intra‐annual wood formation processes in global vegetation
models is vital for assessing climate change impacts on the forest carbon stock. Yet, wood …

Woody biomass production lags stem-girth increase by over one month in coniferous forests

HE Cuny, CBK Rathgeber, D Frank, P Fonti, H Mäkinen… - Nature plants, 2015 - nature.com
Wood is the main terrestrial biotic reservoir for long-term carbon sequestration 1, and its
formation in trees consumes around 15% of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions each …

From xylogenesis to tree rings: wood traits to investigate tree response to environmental changes

V De Micco, M Carrer, CBK Rathgeber, JJ Camarero… - IAWA journal, 2019 - brill.com
It is noteworthy that the largest part of global vegetation biomass depends on a thin layer of
cells: the vascular cambium. Understanding the wood formation processes and relationships …

A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle

F Babst, MR Alexander, P Szejner, O Bouriaud… - Oecologia, 2014 - Springer
Tree-ring records can provide valuable information to advance our understanding of
contemporary terrestrial carbon cycling and to reconstruct key metrics in the decades …

How does climate influence xylem morphogenesis over the growing season? Insights from long-term intra-ring anatomy in Picea abies

D Castagneri, P Fonti, G von Arx, M Carrer - Annals of botany, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background and Aims During the growing season, the cambium of conifer trees produces
successive rows of xylem cells, the tracheids, that sequentially pass through the phases of …

Scientific merits and analytical challenges of tree‐ring densitometry

J Björklund, G von Arx, D Nievergelt… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
X‐ray microdensitometry on annually resolved tree‐ring samples has gained an exceptional
position in last‐millennium paleoclimatology through the maximum latewood density (MXD) …

Couplings in cell differentiation kinetics mitigate air temperature influence on conifer wood anatomy

HE Cuny, P Fonti, CBK Rathgeber… - Plant, Cell & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Conifer trees possess a typical anatomical tree‐ring structure characterized by a transition
from large and thin‐walled earlywood tracheids to narrow and thick‐walled latewood …

Xylogenesis: coniferous trees of temperate forests are listening to the climate tale during the growing season but only remember the last words!

HE Cuny, CBK Rathgeber - Plant Physiology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The complex inner mechanisms that create typical conifer tree-ring structure (ie the transition
from large, thin-walled earlywood cells to narrow, thick-walled latewood cells) were recently …