“…These anatomical characteristics are tightly coupled to fundamental physiological functions of plants, such as cellular respiration and photosynthesis. Their roles in mediating plant stress tolerance have been extensively explored in many plant species ( Jensen et al, 2005 ; Pi et al, 2009 ; Jovanovic et al, 2015 ; Dai et al, 2017 ; Cheng et al, 2020a , 2020b ; de Lopes et al, 2020 ; Mei et al, 2020 ; Scholz et al, 2021 ). Studies in mangrove plants suggest that differences in both porosity and ROL barrier contribute to different sensitivity to waterlogging, root zone hypoxia, nutrient limitation and heavy metal stress ( Pi et al, 2009 ; Dai et al, 2017 ; Cheng et al, 2020a , 2020b ; Pedersen et al, 2021 ).…”