Claim · model-written summary
Meski leaf size decreased 15% under lower water availability.
- Taxon
- olive
Olea europaeat0 - Material
- ‘Meski’e0
- Treatment
- lower water availabilitye0
- Outcome
- leaf sizee0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 15%e0
- Comparator
- ‘Chemlali’e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Under conditions of lower water availability, leaf size decreased by 24% in ‘Chemlali’ (vs. 15% in ‘Meski’)”
t0“olive”
Title
M. Ennajeh; A.M. Vadel; H. Cochard; et al. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 2010. doi:10.1080/14620316.2010.11512670
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation Under water deficit, Chemlali maintained higher photosynthetic assimilation than Meski.
- Observation Under water deficit, Chemlali maintained lower transpiration than Meski.
- Intervention effect With water stress, Chemlali upper palisade thickness increased 17%.
- Intervention effect With water stress, Chemlali spongy parenchyma thickness increased 22%.
- Intervention effect With water stress, Meski upper palisade thickness increased 9%.
- Intervention effect With water stress, Meski spongy parenchyma thickness increased 13%.
- Intervention effect Chemlali stomatal density increased 25% during drought.
- Intervention effect Meski stomatal density increased 7% during drought.
- Intervention effect Chemlali leaf size decreased 24% under lower water availability.
- Intervention effect Chemlali trichome density increased 25% under lower water availability.
- Intervention effect Meski trichome density remained unchanged under lower water availability.
- Intervention effect Chemlali upper epidermis thickness increased 32% under lower water availability.
- Intervention effect Chemlali lower epidermis thickness increased 25% under lower water availability.
- Intervention effect Meski epidermis thickness remained unchanged under lower water availability.
- Mechanism The leaf anatomy changes were proposed to improve tree water-use efficiency.
- Recommendation The authors proposed upper palisade, spongy parenchyma, stomatal density and trichome density as selection criteria for drought-resistant olive.