Claim · model-written summary
Declining relative water content partly explained the fall in leaf osmotic potential.
- Taxon
- apricot
Prunus armeniacat0 - Outcome
- leaf osmotic potentiale0
- Qualifier
- decrease in relative water contente0
Verbatim
e0“fall in leaf osmotic potential was partly accounted for by a decrease in relative water content”
t0“APRICOT LEAVES”
Title
B. R. LOVEYS; S. P. ROBINSON; W. J. S. DOWNTON New Phytologist 1987. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1987.tb04878.x
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- Observation Diurnal changes in conductance and foliar ABA were small.
- Observation Xylem sap ABA content was low, at 0·3 to 0·9 × 10 −4 mol m −3.
- Mechanism That sap ABA concentration was too low to affect stomatal conductance.
- Mechanism Xylem uptake could account for diurnal and some seasonal changes in leaf ABA.
- Observation Water potential fell over the growing season.
- Association Turgor stayed high as leaf osmotic potential fell.
- Observation Solute accumulated between December and March.
- Mechanism Sorbitol chiefly accounted for the solute increase.
- Observation Capacity to synthesize ABA under zero turgor declined from November to March.
- Observation Capacity to synthesize ABA under zero turgor partly recovered in April.
- Mechanism ABA appears relatively unimportant for controlling stomatal conductance.