Claim · model-written summary
Growth of sweetgum seedlings essentially stopped in response to the first drying cycle.
- Taxon
- sweetgum
Liquidambar styracifluat0
- Treatment
- first drying cyclee0
- Outcome
- Growthe0
- Direction
- stoppede0
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Verbatim
t0“sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) seedlings”
e0“Growth was essentially stopped in response to the first drying cycle, though seedling survival and capacity to recover turgor on rewatering remained high throughout the entire nine cycles”
Title
C. Fang; R. K. Monson; E. B. Cowling Tree Physiology 1996. doi:10.1093/treephys/16.4.441
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Seedling survival and capacity to recover turgor on rewatering remained high through all nine drying cycles.
- Intervention effect Photosynthetic rates of leaves were inhibited by the drying treatments.
- Intervention effect Under severe drought, isoprene emission rates of leaves were inhibited.
- Association Isoprene emission was generally less sensitive to drought than photosynthesis.
- Association The lower drought sensitivity of isoprene emission left a higher percentage of fixed carbon lost as isoprene as seedlings became more stressed.
- Intervention effect During recovery from drying-rewatering cycles, isoprene emission rates in several seedlings were higher than in well-watered controls.
- Intervention effect After the ninth drying-rewatering cycle, sustained daily watering recovered isoprene emission rates to control values within four days.
- Intervention effect Photosynthetic rates recovered only to 50% of control values after seven days of sustained daily watering.
- Mechanism Photosynthetic rate and isoprene emission rate are differentially influenced by limited water supplies.
- Mechanism Isoprene emission may have a protective role against excessive leaf temperatures during drought.