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TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 473-478Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-009-0312-5
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Diurnal oscillation of trans-root electric potential; Phase relation; Polarity in electro-radicogram; Root surface ion pump; Transpiration
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Re-examination of the electro-radicogram (ERG) obtained during past 10 years research (Masaki and Okamoto in Trees (Berl) 21:433-442, 2007) enabled us to discriminate the excess activity of the electrogenic ion pump in the root surface cell membrane over that of the xylem pump during most of the foliate phase. The trans-root electric potential (TRP) is defined as the difference between V (ps) (electric potential difference between symplast and bulk water phase surrounding the root) and V (px) (electric potential difference between symplast and xylem apoplast). The diurnal oscillation of TRP followed that of the air temperature and/or light intensity with a delay of several hours during defoliate phase. This means the superiority of the electrogenic activity of the xylem pump over that of the root surface pump. However, after leaf expansion, TRP began to oscillate inversely with the temperature change with a short delay, indicating the superiority of the electrogenic activity of the surface ion pump over that of the xylem pump. An experimental lumbering of the surroundings of the kaki tree in foliate phase prominently increased the ERG amplitude, keeping the inverted phase relation, with the increase in transpiration caused by the increased illumination. An incidental sudden fall of the temperature and illumination caused an inverse reaction.
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