Claim · model-written summary
Drought hardening reduced stomatal conductance, residual transpiration and new root growth capacity.
- Taxon
- holm oakt0
- Treatment
- Drought hardeninge0
- Outcome
- stomatal conductance, residual transpiration (RT) and new root growth capacity (RGC)e0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Drought hardening reduced osmotic potential at saturation and at the turgor loss point, stomatal conductance, residual transpiration (RT) and new root growth capacity (RGC)”
t0“holm oak (Quercus ilex)”
Title
P. Villar-Salvador; R. Planelles; J. Oliet; et al. Tree Physiology 2004. doi:10.1093/treephys/24.10.1147
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Drought hardening increased drought tolerance primarily through physiological traits.
- Intervention effect Drought hardening did not affect shoot/root ratio or specific leaf mass.
- Intervention effect Drought hardening reduced osmotic potential at saturation and the turgor loss point.
- Intervention effect Drought hardening enhanced cell membrane stability.
- Observation Moderate hardening produced the largest response among treated seedlings.
- Intervention effect Severe hardening reduced shoot soluble sugar concentration.
- Intervention effect Severe hardening increased shoot starch concentration.
- Intervention effect Longer hardening did not affect water relations.
- Intervention effect Longer hardening reduced shoot mineral and starch concentrations.
- Association Cell membrane stability, residual transpiration and root growth capacity varied negatively with osmotic adjustment.
- Intervention effect Hardening treatments did not differ in mortality under mesic or xeric transplantation.
- Intervention effect Hardening treatments did not differ in relative growth rate under mesic or xeric transplantation.