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Water irrigation deficit significantly reduced leaf midday water potential ( ψ ) in grapevines.
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t0“Grapevines”
e0“water irrigation deficit significantly reduced leaf area, trunk cross-sectional area, plant dry weight, root dry weight, relative chlorophyll content, leaf total carbohydrates, catalase activity, leaf midday water potential ( ψ ), relative water content (RWC), and crop evapotranspiration (ET c ), but increased the proline content”
Title
Hoda Ali Khalil; Rasha M. Badr Eldin Journal of Horticultural Research 2021. doi:10.2478/johr-2021-0003
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Water irrigation deficit significantly reduced leaf area in grapevines.
- Intervention effect Water irrigation deficit significantly reduced trunk cross-sectional area in grapevines.
- Intervention effect Water irrigation deficit significantly reduced plant dry weight in grapevines.
- Intervention effect Water irrigation deficit significantly reduced root dry weight in grapevines.
- Intervention effect Water irrigation deficit significantly reduced relative chlorophyll content in grapevines.
- Intervention effect Water irrigation deficit significantly reduced leaf total carbohydrates in grapevines.
- Intervention effect Water irrigation deficit significantly reduced catalase activity in grapevines.
- Intervention effect Water irrigation deficit significantly reduced relative water content (RWC) in grapevines.
- Intervention effect Water irrigation deficit significantly reduced crop evapotranspiration (ET c ) in grapevines.
- Intervention effect Water irrigation deficit increased proline content in grapevines.
- Intervention effect Under well-watered conditions, foliar chitosan at 5 and 10 g·dm −3 increased growth and biomass production.
- Intervention effect Chitosan sprays significantly improved grapevine tolerance to deficit irrigation.
- Recommendation Authors suggest growing grapevines under deficit irrigation using chitosan foliar spray.
- Mechanism The authors attribute drought avoidance under moderate deficit irrigation to increased biomass and root weight and chitosan-associated water relations.