Linking structure to function: the connection between mesophyll structure and intrinsic water use efficiency.

Abstract

Climate change-driven drought events are becoming unescapable in an increasing number of areas worldwide. Understanding how plants are able to adapt to these changing environmental conditions is a non-trivial challenge. Physiologically, improving a plant's intrinsic water use efficiency (WUEi ) will be essential for plant survival in dry conditions. Physically, plant adaptation and acclimatisation are constrained by a plant's anatomy. In other words, there is a strong link between anatomical structure and physiological function. Former research predominantly focused on using 2D anatomical measurements to approximate 3D structures based on the assumption of ideal shapes, such as spherical spongy mesophyll cells. As a result of increasing progress in 3D imaging technology, the validity of these assumptions is being assessed, and recent research has indicated that these approximations can contain significant errors. We suggest to invert the workflow and use the less common 3D assessments to provide corrections and functions for the more widely available 2D assessments. By combining these 3D and corrected 2D anatomical assessments with physiological measurements of WUEi , our understanding of how a plant's physical adaptation affects its function will increase and greatly improve our ability to assess plant survival.

Plant phenotyping relevance

3Dおよび補正2Dによる植物解剖形質の評価ワークフローを中心に論じ、植物構造の測定・推定法の改善を提案しているため、方法論的レビュー／開発に該当する。

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