They say the size of the pores in sapwood — which
contains xylem tissue evolved to transport sap up the length of a tree — also allows water through while blocking most types of bacteria.
Not exact matches
Data for the study was obtained from dozens of published peer - reviewed scientific studies and the
Xylem Functional Traits Database, which
contains measurements of the hydraulic safety margins for each species as determined through laboratory experiments.
These include: acid hydrolysis and monosaccharide composition using gas - liquid chromatography [3], microscopic observation of
xylem stem sections [4, 5], seedling growth on medium
containing cell wall hydrolyzing enzymes [6] and Fourier - Transform Infrared (FT - IR) microspectroscopy [7, 8].