Claim · model-written summary
Chemlali was more drought resistant than Meski.
- Taxon
- Olea europaea
Olea europaeat0 - Material
- Chemlalie1
- Treatment
- withholding water for 60 dayse2
- Outcome
- drought resistante1
- Direction
- moree1
- Comparator
- Meskie1
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Verbatim
t0“olive (Olea europaea) varieties”
e1“Water relations and gas exchange measurements showed that 'Chemlali' was more drought resistant than 'Meski' and had a greater capacity for osmotic adjustment through solute accumulation”
e2“subjected to water stress by withholding water for 60 days”
Title
M. Ennajeh; T. Tounekti; A. M. Vadel; et al. Tree Physiology 2008. doi:10.1093/treephys/28.6.971
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Chemlali had a greater capacity for osmotic adjustment through solute accumulation than Meski.
- Mechanism Under acute water stress, the effect of osmoregulation on leaf cell turgor was largely counteracted by xylem cavitation.
- Observation Both olive varieties were highly resistant to embolism formation.
- Observation In Meski, the xylem water potential inducing 50% loss of stem conductivity approached -7 MPa.
- Observation In Chemlali, the xylem water potential inducing 50% loss of stem conductivity was only slightly less than in Meski.
- Mechanism The small difference in embolism susceptibility between varieties appears to account for their difference in severe drought tolerance.