Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest moisture moved from unifoliates to growing tips.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatat0 - Organ / stage
- unifoliatese0
- Outcome
- moisture was being mobilized from the unifoliates to the growing tipse0
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Verbatim
e0“suggesting that moisture was being mobilized from the unifoliates to the growing tips”
t0“cowpea”
Title
Two mechanisms of drought tolerance in cowpea
Y. Mai-Kodomi; B. B. Singh; O. Myers; et al. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) 1999
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Two drought tolerance mechanisms were observed in cowpea.
- Observation Type 1 lines stopped growth under drought.
- Observation Type 1 lines conserved moisture in plant tissues.
- Observation Type 1 lines survived over two weeks under drought.
- Observation Type 1 plants gradually dried together.
- Observation Type 2 lines continued slow trifoliate growth.
- Observation Type 2 unifoliates senesced early and dropped under sustained stress.
- Observation Type 2 growing tips remained turgid and alive longer.