Claim · model-written summary
Gibberellin decline correlated with increasing leaf water deficit.
- Taxon
- Lettuce
Lactuca sativat0 - Organ / stage
- leafe0
- Outcome
- rate of this declinee0
- Direction
- positively correlatede0
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Verbatim
e0“the rate of this decline being positively correlated with the rate of increase in leaf water saturation deficit”
t0“Lettuce Leaves”
Title
Hormonal Activity in Detached Lettuce Leaves as Affected by Leaf Water Content
Nehemia Aharoni; Amos Blumenfeld; Amos E. Richmond PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1977. doi:10.1104/pp.59.6.1169
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Desiccation increased leaf abscisic acid.
- Observation Desiccation lowered gibberellin and cytokinin activity.
- Observation Gibberellin activity declined before abscisic acid rose.
- Observation Rehydration decreased leaf water saturation deficit.
- Observation Rehydration reduced abscisic acid content.
- Observation Rehydration increased gibberellin and cytokinin activity.
- Intervention effect Abscisic acid partly closed stomata in turgid leaves.
- Intervention effect Gibberellic acid did not affect stomatal aperture in turgid leaves.
- Intervention effect Kinetin did not affect stomatal aperture in turgid leaves.
- Intervention effect Gibberellic acid retarded stomatal closure in desiccating leaves.
- Intervention effect Kinetin retarded stomatal closure in desiccating leaves.
- Observation Hormone treatment enhanced the increase in leaf water deficit.