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Relative water content decreased by 14% during the drying cycle.
Ziziphus mauritianaVerbatim
t0“The role of solute accumulation, osmotic adjustment and changes in cell wall elasticity in drought tolerance in Ziziphus mauritiana”
e2“pre-dawn leaf water (ψleaf) and osmotic (ψπ) potentials in droughted trees declined from −0.5 and −1.4 MPa to −1.7 and −2.2 MPa, respectively, for a decrease in relative water content (θ) of 14%”
e3“during a 13 d drying cycle”
Title
S. C. Clifford; S. K. Arndt; J. E. Corlett; et al. Journal of Experimental Botany 1998. doi:10.1093/jxb/49.323.967
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- Association Hexose sugar concentrations increased 3.8-fold during drought stress in Ziziphus mauritiana.
- Association Cyclitol concentration increased 1.5-fold during drought stress in Ziziphus mauritiana.
- Association Proline concentration increased 35-fold during drought stress in Ziziphus mauritiana.
- Association Pre-dawn leaf water potential declined to −1.7 MPa during the drying cycle.
- Association Osmotic potential declined to −2.2 MPa during the drying cycle.
- Observation On rewatering, pre-dawn leaf water potential and relative water content recovered fully.
- Intervention effect Osmotic potential remained depressed by 0.4 MPa relative to control after rewatering.
- Association Pressure-volume analysis showed a 0.7 MPa reduction in osmotic potential at full turgor during gradual drought.
- Association Leaf water potential at turgor loss was depressed by about 1 MPa in drought-stressed leaves.
- Association Bulk tissue elastic modulus increased by 65% during gradual drought.
- Observation Turgor loss occurred at the same relative water content in stressed and unstressed leaves.