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← Nature & AnimalsWhich risk emerges during heat stress when root pressure is inadequate in herbaceous plants?
A)Increased symbiotic nitrogen fixation rates
B)Cavitation within xylem vessels occurs✓
C)Elevated photosynthetic pigment synthesis
D)Decreased susceptibility to fungal pathogens
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Cavitation ensues because inadequate negative pressure generation from transpiration overwhelms cohesive force in xylem, leading to air bubble formation. Cohesion-tension mechanism falters, therefore xylem becomes blocked rather than facilitating water transport, unlike pathogen suppression or symbiotic activity.
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