Claim · model-written summary
Moderate and severe stress reduced tomato leaf water potential relative to controls, more under severe stress.
Solanum lycopersicumVerbatim
e0“Moderate and severe water stress (i.e. Ψs= ‐0.51 and ‐1.22 MPa, respectively) caused a decrease in Ψ w for all treated (water‐stressed) plants compared with control plants, with the reduction being more pronounced for severely stressed plants.”
t0“Tomato Plants”
Title
Hatem Zgallaï; Kathy Steppe; Raoul Lemeur Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 2006. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7909.2006.00272.x
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Water stress significantly affected stomatal resistance without a stated direction.
- Intervention effect Water stress decreased leaf soluble protein content.
- Intervention effect Water stress decreased chlorophyll content.
- Intervention effect Catalase activity remained constant under water stress.
- Intervention effect SOD activity increased in water-stressed relative to unstressed plants.
- Mechanism The authors suggest SOD may protect plants under water stress.
- Recommendation The authors suggest using SOD activity as a water-stress screening criterion.