Crop water deficits: a decade of progress

NC Turner - Advances in agronomy, 1986 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter describes the various aspects of crop water deficits. The
water status of a crop plant is usually defined in terms of its water content, water potential, or …

Water content of plant tissues: So simple that almost forgotten?

G Ievinsh - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
The aim of the present review was to reconsider basic information about various functional
aspects related to plant water content and provide evidence that the usefulness of …

Morphological, physiochemical and antioxidant responses of Maclura pomifera to drought stress

A Khaleghi, R Naderi, C Brunetti, BE Maserti… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Drought is one of the most important environmental factor limiting the growth of woody and
non woody plants. In the present paper, we aimed to explore the performance of Maclura …

Leaf water potential measurements using the pressure chamber: Synthetic testing of assumptions towards best practices for precision and accuracy

CM Rodriguez‐Dominguez, A Forner… - Plant, Cell & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf water potential (ψleaf), typically measured using the pressure chamber, is the most
important metric of plant water status, providing high theoretical value and information …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) protects photosynthetic apparatus of wheat under drought stress

S Mathur, RS Tomar, A Jajoo - Photosynthesis Research, 2019 - Springer
Drought stress (DS) is amongst one of the abiotic factors affecting plant growth by limiting
productivity of crops by inhibiting photosynthesis. Damage due to DS and its protection by …

[图书][B] Water relations of plants and soils

PJ Kramer, JS Boyer - 1995 - books.google.com
Water Relations of Plants and Soils, successor to the seminal 1983 book by Paul Kramer,
covers the entire field of water relations using current concepts and consistent terminology …

Melatonin increased maize (Zea mays L.) seedling drought tolerance by alleviating drought-induced photosynthetic inhibition and oxidative damage

J Ye, S Wang, X Deng, L Yin, B Xiong… - Acta physiologiae …, 2016 - Springer
The effect of melatonin application on enhancing plant stress tolerance is already known,
but the specifics of its performance and its underlying mechanism are still poorly understood …

Photosynthetic electron transport and specific photoprotective responses in wheat leaves under drought stress

M Zivcak, M Brestic, Z Balatova, P Drevenakova… - Photosynthesis …, 2013 - Springer
The photosynthetic responses of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) leaves to different levels of
drought stress were analyzed in potted plants cultivated in growth chamber under moderate …

A standardized protocol for the determination of specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content

E Garnier, B Shipley, C Roumet, G Laurent - Functional ecology, 2001 - JSTOR
1. The impact of sample preparation, rehydration procedure and time of collection on the
determination of specific leaf area (SLA, the ratio of leaf area to leaf dry mass) and leaf dry …

Measurement of plant water status by the pressure chamber technique

NC Turner - Irrigation science, 1988 - Springer
The pressure chamber has been widely used in the measurement of total water potential
and pressure-volume relations of leaves, twigs and, to a lesser extent, roots. Some of the …