Abscisic acid content and components of water status in leaves of Populus deltoides

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (10) ◽  
pp. 2295-2298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsai-Yun Lin ◽  
Edward Sucoff ◽  
Mark Brenner

The relationship between abscisic acid (ABA) and leaf water status was studied during the air drying of detached leaves of eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides Marsh.). The ABA content increased exponentially as leaf water potential and leaf turgor potential decreased. No clearly defined thresholds were observed between ABA content and these variables. ABA content was linearly related to the relative fresh weight and was not related to the osmotic potential.

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z Kefu ◽  
R Munns ◽  
RW King

Exposing barley and cotton plants to 75 mol m-3 NaCl reduced transpiration and increased abscisic acid (ABA) levels in leaves, roots and xylem sap. Exposing saltbush (Atriplex spongiosa) plants to 75 mol m-3 NaCI, at which concentration they grow best, did not affect transpiration or ABA levels but when the NaCl was increased to 150 mol m-3 transpiration fell and ABA levels rose. ABA levels in leaves were high in salt-treated barley and saltbush even when the leaf water status was raised by pressurising the roots. These responses indicate that an increased leaf ABA level was not triggered by leaf water deficit, but by the root's response to the salinity. The flux of ABA in the xylem sap of the three species was more than enough to account for the amount of ABA in leaves, in the presence and absence of salinity. This suggests that the roots may be the source of at least part of the ABA found in leaves.


1991 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Harris ◽  
William H. Outlaw

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 1339-1355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Zhang ◽  
Haiyue Yu ◽  
Yushi Zhang ◽  
Yubing Wang ◽  
Maoying Li ◽  
...  

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 429 ◽  
Author(s):  
IE Henson ◽  
CR Jensen ◽  
NC Turner

Changes in the content of endogenous abscisic acid (ABA) were followed in glasshouse experiments during stomatal closure induced by drought in leaves of lupin (Lupinus cosentinii Guss. cv. Eregulla) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cvv. Gamenya and Warigal), species which differ in stomatal sensitivity to changes in leaf water potential. Increases in bulk leaf ABA concentration were closely correlated with decreases in leaf conductance in both species. In lupin, substantial increases in ABA and decreases in conductance occurred over a very narrow range of leaf water potential. ABA concentrations in wheat leaves were highly negatively correlated with bulk leaf turgor, but there was no significant relationship between ABA and turgor in lupin. However, ABA accumulated progressively in the leaves of both species as soil water content decreased. Stomatal closure in lupin could be induced by supplying exogenous ABA to detached leaves via the transpiration stream at concentrations of 10-4 to 10-2 mol m-3 of (+)-ABA. Abaxial stomata closed more readily than those on the adaxial surface in response to both drought and applied ABA. Stomatal response to ABA was not affected by the presence of the cytokinin zeatin, and zeatin by itself had no effect on conductance. When treatments designed to reduce endogenous cytokinin concentrations were imposed (prolonged leaf detachment or prior drought), stomatal response to low concentrations of ABA was enhanced. However, such treatments did not significantly change the stomatal response to high ABA concentrations, nor affect the stomatal conductance of leaves supplied with water alone. It is concluded that drought-induced stomatal closure could be mediated by ABA in both wheat and lupin, despite the initially small change in leaf water status in the latter species.


2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Taheri-Garavand ◽  
Abdolhossein Rezaei Nejad ◽  
Dimitrios Fanourakis ◽  
Soodabeh Fatahi ◽  
Masoumeh Ahmadi Majd

1979 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Jones

SummaryThe potential offered for plant breeding programmes by visual scoring techniques for plant water status was investigated in rice and spring wheat. It was found that differing plant morphology could seriously bias visual estimates of leaf water potential, particularly in spring wheat. In spite of this problem, it was found that at least for rice, this type of approach may have potential in future breeding programmes where an estimate of leaf water status is required, such as those for drought tolerance, so long as a high intensity of selection is not necessary.


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