Claim · model-written summary
Dactylis reached 50% survival at lower soil water potential than Stipa.
Verbatim
e0“Dactylis were more dehydration tolerant, reaching 50% survival at a lower soil water potential (-6.07 MPa) than Stipa (-2.64 MPa)”
Title
Maria Dolores Hidalgo-Galvez; Chaïa Akhoun-Piernicka; Gerónimo A Cardozo; et al. Journal of Experimental Botany 2026. doi:10.1093/jxb/erag003
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Dactylis reached 50% survival at lower leaf base water content than Stipa.
- Observation Dactylis accumulated more water-soluble carbohydrates in leaf bases than Stipa.
- Observation Stipa had 17 mg g-1 DM water-soluble carbohydrates, with high sucrose concentration.
- Observation Water-soluble carbohydrates contributed 47% to osmotic adjustment in Dactylis.
- Observation Water-soluble carbohydrates contributed 29% to osmotic adjustment in Stipa.
- Observation Stipa had higher embolism resistance than Dactylis.
- Association Plants from the most arid sites had the highest dehydration tolerance.
- Association Embolism resistance was uncorrelated with aridity of sites of origin.
- Observation These grasses showed the highest embolism resistance and dehydration tolerance reported for herbaceous species.
