Journal
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 40, Issue 7, Pages 1021-1038Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12788
Keywords
cisternae; dehydration; leaf water capacitance; mangrove; plasmolysis; PV curve; trichomes
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- Australia Awards PhD scholarship
- Australian Research Council [DP150104437]
- ARC [FT110100457]
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A three-domain pressure-volume relationship (PV curve) was studied in relation to leaf anatomical structure during dehydration in the grey mangrove, Avicennia marina. In domain 1, relative water content (RWC) declined 13% with 0.85MPa decrease in leaf water potential, reflecting a decrease in extracellular water stored primarily in trichomes and petiolar cisternae. In domain 2, RWC decreased by another 12% with a further reduction in leaf water potential to -5.1MPa, the turgor loss point. Given the osmotic potential at full turgor (-4.2MPa) and the effective modulus of elasticity (similar to 40MPa), domain 2 emphasized the role of cell wall elasticity in conserving cellular hydration during leaf water loss. Domain 3 was dominated by osmotic effects and characterized by plasmolysis in most tissues and cell types without cell wall collapse. Extracellular and cellular water storage could support an evaporation rate of 1mmolm(-2)s(-1) for up to 54 and 50 min, respectively, before turgor loss was reached. This study emphasized the importance of leaf anatomy for the interpretation of PV curves, and identified extracellular water storage sites that enable transient water use without substantive turgor loss when other factors, such as high soil salinity, constrain rates of water transport.
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