Soils set the optimal tension limit for plants

Md Mahadi Hasan; Nadiyah M. Alabdallah; Md Atikur Rahman; Marc Carriquí

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.018

Soils set the optimal tension limit for plants

Md Mahadi Hasan
, Nadiyah M. Alabdallah
, Md Atikur Rahman
, Marc Carriquí^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Biology Department

Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
Rajshahi University
University of the Balearic Islands

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Abstract

Land plants extract soil water under negative vascular pressure, yet stomatal regulation begins at a conserved leaf tension (∼1.3 MPa) across diverse species. Carminati et al . demonstrate that soil hydraulic constraints, rather than xylem embolism vulnerability, drive this convergence, with leaf osmotic pressure helping to set the physiological threshold for stomatal regulation.

Original language	English
Journal	Trends in Plant Science
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2026.04.018
State	Accepted/In press - 2026

Keywords

osmotic pressure
plant hydraulics
soil hydraulics
stomatal closure
vascular tension
water potential

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