Acknowledgements
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental
Research (BER), Biological System Science Division (BSSD), Early Career
Research Program under Award number FP00007421 to Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory. This work was also supported as part of the DOE
Joint BioEnergy Institute through contract DE-AC02-05CH11231 to Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory. A portion of this research was performed
on project awards
(10.46936/cpcy.proj.2019.50708/60006566
and
10.46936/expl.proj.2019.51078/60006676)
from the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE Office of
Science User Facility sponsored by the BER program under Contract No.
DE-AC05-76RL01830. We would like to acknowledge extensive project
guidance from Eoin Brodie and Christina Wistrom for the maintenance and
establishment of our poplar trees at the UC Berkeley Oxford Greenhouse.
In addition, we would like to acknowledge Thomas Powell for practical
advice on leaf water potential measurements and the helpful discussions
on cell wall elasticity and plant drought stress responses.