Claim · model-written summary
The authors attributed greater drought leaf water retention to wax deposition and internal lipid accumulation.
- Taxon
- Warm Season Forage Cropst0
- Outcome
- water retention ability of the leavese0
- Qualifier
- deposition of a larger amount of wax on their leaf surfaces, and a higher accumulation of lipids in internal tissuese0
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Verbatim
e0“in the drought-tolerant plants the water retention ability of the leaves increased due to the deposition of a larger amount of wax on their leaf surfaces, and a higher accumulation of lipids in internal tissues”
t0“Warm Season Forage Crops”
Title
Hirohumi Saneoka; Shoitsu Ogata Soil Science & Plant Nutrition 1987. doi:10.1080/00380768.1987.10557590
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Water stress increased cuticular resistance about twofold in Chloris gayana.
- Intervention effect Water stress increased cuticular resistance by about 10% in Coix lacryma-jobi.
- Intervention effect Water stress increased leaf surface epicuticular wax in both plants.
- Observation The tolerant plant had much more epicuticular wax than the sensitive plant.
- Intervention effect In stressed C. gayana, carbon incorporation into leaf surface wax was 27% less than in well-watered plants.
- Intervention effect In stressed C. lacryma-jobi, carbon incorporation into leaf surface wax was 50% less than in well-watered plants.
- Intervention effect Water-stressed C. gayana leaves incorporated 5.7 times more carbon into internal lipids.
- Intervention effect Water-stressed C. lacryma-jobi leaves incorporated 78% of the well-watered amount into internal lipids.
- Intervention effect Water stress raised cuticular resistance about 90% in bloom sorghum lines.
- Intervention effect Water stress raised cuticular resistance about 15% in bloomless sorghum.
- Intervention effect Water stress increased water use efficiency in bloom sorghum lines.
- Intervention effect Water stress decreased water use efficiency in bloomless sorghum.
- Mechanism The authors attributed greater dry matter production to improved water use efficiency and reduced cuticular evaporation.