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Calcium contributed 19% of the osmotic pool.
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t0“grain legumes”
e0“Calcium was the only inorganic osmoticum contributing 19% of the pool”
Title
Mechanisms of drought resistance in grain legumes I: Osmotic adjustment
Tilahun Amede; Sven Schubert; Karl Stahr SINET Ethiopian Journal of Science 2004. doi:10.4314/sinet.v26i1.18198
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- Intervention effect Drought reduced faba bean dry matter yield by 36.4%.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced pea dry matter yield by 23.9%.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced common bean dry matter yield by 17.6%.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced chickpea dry matter yield by 14.5%.
- Intervention effect Drought decreased faba bean leaf water potential to -1.67 MPa.
- Intervention effect Drought decreased pea leaf water potential to -1.83 MPa.
- Intervention effect Drought decreased common bean leaf water potential to -0.34 MPa.
- Intervention effect Drought decreased chickpea leaf water potential to -1.32 MPa.
- Mechanism Turgor maintenance augmented chickpea and common bean yield under drought.
- Observation Common bean had the highest turgor, 1.0 MPa, despite the lowest solute accumulation.
- Mechanism In most legumes, increased solute pool reflected concentration from water loss and growth inhibition.
- Observation Chickpea sugars and sugar alcohols contributed more than 50% of the osmotic pool.
- Observation Chickpea amino compounds contributed 20% of the osmotic pool.
- Observation Potassium did not contribute to osmotic adjustment under drought.
- Recommendation The authors recommend distinguishing concentration effects from active osmotica before selecting for drought resistance.