On the Direct Observation of Water-FIuxes in Tissues and Leaves

1986 ◽  
Vol 41 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 923-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich-Andreas Hirth ◽  
Rüdiger Lawaczeck

Abstract Based on the different absorption spectra of H2O and D2O in the near infrared (NIR, 800-2200 nm) a strategy is developed to measure H2O/D2O-fluxes in thin sections. The physical background of the method is presented. Results on the H2O/D2O-fluxes in filter paper and plant leaves together with both the physical and biological limitations of the new method are discussed.

Author(s):  
N.C. Lyon ◽  
W. C. Mueller

Schumacher and Halbsguth first demonstrated ectodesmata as pores or channels in the epidermal cell walls in haustoria of Cuscuta odorata L. by light microscopy in tissues fixed in a sublimate fixative (30% ethyl alcohol, 30 ml:glacial acetic acid, 10 ml: 65% nitric acid, 1 ml: 40% formaldehyde, 5 ml: oxalic acid, 2 g: mecuric chloride to saturation 2-3 g). Other workers have published electron micrographs of structures transversing the outer epidermal cell in thin sections of plant leaves that have been interpreted as ectodesmata. Such structures are evident following treatment with Hg++ or Ag+ salts and are only rarely observed by electron microscopy. If ectodesmata exist without such treatment, and are not artefacts, they would afford natural pathways of entry for applied foliar solutions and plant viruses.


1997 ◽  
Vol 62 (26) ◽  
pp. 9387-9387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narasimhachari Narayanan ◽  
Lucjan Strekowski ◽  
Malgorzata Lipowska ◽  
Gabor Patonay

1986 ◽  
Vol 48 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 295-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna P. Longo Marziani ◽  
Alessandro Iannone
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2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (20) ◽  
pp. 7666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Honghua Hu ◽  
Olga V. Przhonska ◽  
Francesca Terenziani ◽  
Anna Painelli ◽  
Dmitry Fishman ◽  
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1994 ◽  
Vol 91 (9) ◽  
pp. 731-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Mironova ◽  
V. Skvortsova ◽  
U. Ulmanis

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. e61936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej F. Frydrychowski ◽  
Pawel J. Winklewski ◽  
Arkadiusz Szarmach ◽  
Grzegorz Halena ◽  
Tomasz Bandurski

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