Osmotic adjustment leads to anomalously low estimates of relative water content in wheat and barley

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1172-1182

  Boyer, John S ^a   James, Richard A ^b   Munns, Rana ^b   Condon, Tony ^b   Passioura, John B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drought; Osmotic potential; Relative turgidity; Salinity; Salt stress; Water potential

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DROUGHT; OSMOSIS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER CONTENT;

OSMOTIC POTENTIAL; RELATIVE TURGIDITY; SALINITY; SALT STRESS; WATER POTENTIAL;

WATER ABSORPTION;

BARLEY; ESTIMATION METHOD; OSMOSIS; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; SALINITY; WATER CONTENT; WHEAT;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 57149117825     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP08157     Document Type: Article

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