Claim · model-written summary
With water stress, Meski spongy parenchyma thickness increased 13%.
- Taxon
- olive
Olea europaeat0 - Material
- ‘Meski’e0
- Treatment
- water stresse0
- Outcome
- spongy parenchymae0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 13%e0
- Comparator
- ‘Chemlali’e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“When subjected to water stress, the leaves of‘Chemlali’ increased the thickness of their upper palisade and spongy parenchyma by 17% and 22%, respectively, compared with only 9% and 13% in the case of ‘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 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 Meski leaf size decreased 15% 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.