wood_conduit_fraction

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• Label: Wood conduit fraction
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0013162
• Type: numeric
• Definition: A vascular tissue morphology trait [TO:0000470] which is the fraction of a cross-section [NCIT:C63795] of sapwood [PO:0004513] comprised of all water [CHEBI:15377] transport conduits (both tracheids [PO:0000301] and xylem vessels [PO:0025417]), calculated as the ratio [PATO:0001470] of total cross-sectional area [PATO:0001323] of conduits to sapwood cross-sectional area.;The fraction of a cross-section of sapwood comprised of all water transport conduits, including both xylem vessels and tracheids. It is calculated as the ratio of total conduit cross-sectional area to sapwood cross-sectional area.
• Additional comments: None
• units: mm2/mm2
• allowable range: 0.01 - 1 mm2/mm2

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0013162) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 156 records. This includes:

• data for 24 species.
• data for 7 families.
• data from 2 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)