Claim · model-written summary
Transient decreases in leaf water content probably triggered induction of the biochemical machinery required for CAM.
- Taxon
- Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Mesembryanthemum crystallinume0 - Outcome
- induction of the biochemical machinerye6
- Qualifier
- transient decreasese6
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Verbatim
e0“Simultaneous measurements of net CO(2) exchange, water vapor exchange, and leaf water relations were performed in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum during the development of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in response to high NaCl salinity in the rooting medium”
e6“These transient decreases probably triggered the induction of the biochemical machinery which is required for CAM to operate”
Title
Klaus Winter; Rolf Gademann PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1991. doi:10.1104/pp.95.3.768
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Leaf water content and turgor pressure decreased by as much as 30% and 60% during the photoperiods under NaCl.
- Intervention effect Net carbon gain during photoperiods and average intercellular CO2 partial pressures progressively decreased upon salinization.
- Association Reversible diurnal depressions in leaf conductance and net CO2 uptake preceded nocturnal net CO2 uptake.
- Association During the depressions, intercellular CO2 partial pressure and rates of photosynthetic electron transport decreased.
- Association With advancing age, leaves under nonsaline conditions showed progressively greater diurnal reductions in turgor pressure.
- Observation Leaves grown under nonsaline conditions developed a low degree of CAM activity with advancing age.
- Intervention effect After several days at 400 millimolar NaCl, overall turgor pressure and leaf mass per unit area increased above the levels before the salt treatment.
- Intervention effect Under 400 millimolar NaCl, diurnal alterations in leaf water content were reduced.
- Observation Water content and turgor pressure regularly decreased toward the end of the 12 hour light periods in plants grown under nonsaline conditions.