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Water in Tissues and Cells

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Physiological Plant Ecology II

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology ((920,volume 12 / B))

Abstract

As already explained in the previous chapter, generally the water potential, Ψ, of a plant cell is expressed as the sum of three components, as follows (Dainty 1976):

$$psi = P + \pi + \tau$$
((2.1))

where P, π and τ are the pressure, osmotic and matric potentials, respectively. In a tissue or organ, Eq. (2.1) applies to each cell individually but if different cells have different solute concentrations, moduli of elasticity or volumes of apoplasmic water, then even at equilibrium the cellular values of P, π and τ may differ from cell to cell. Although measurements of π have frequently been made on individual cells using plasmolytic methods and measurements of P have recently been made on individual cells of higher plants using the pressure probe (Steudle et al. 1975; Hüsken et al. 1978, 1980), it is in general not practical to make a large number of such measurements in the tissues and organs of higher plants. In spite of this problem Tyree and Hammel (1972) have argued that it is meaningful to define bulk values of the water relations parameters to characterize the water relations properties of tissues and organs.

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    O. L. Lange

  2. Department of Biology, Division of Environmental Biology of the Laboratory of Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA

    P. S. Nobel

  3. Department of Environmental Biology, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Box 475, Canberra City, 2601, Australia

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  4. Institut für Botanik und Mikrobiologie der Technischen Universität München, Arcisstraße 21, 8000, München 2, Germany

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Tyree, M.T., Jarvis, P.G. (1982). Water in Tissues and Cells. In: Lange, O.L., Nobel, P.S., Osmond, C.B., Ziegler, H. (eds) Physiological Plant Ecology II. Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 12 / B. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68150-9_3

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