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PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages 105-111Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/B:GROW.0000017476.12491.02
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ABA; Ilex paraguariensis; stomatal closure; temporary water stress; transpiration; vegetative growth
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Stomatal closure, relative water content (RWC) and vegetative growth were monitored in Ilex paraguariensis plants grown under well-watered conditions with a photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) varying from 100% to 1.5%, and sprayed weekly with either distilled water (control) or 1.89 mM abscisic acid (ABA). ABA treatments caused stomatal closure, ranging from 62% to 73%. These treatments also increased RWC in the early evening from 82% to 92% and 88% to 94% in mature and immature leaves, respectively. Such alleviation of the water stress was correlated with increases in leaf area, leaf dry weight (DW), shoot length and shoot DW. On day 35 from the beginning of the experiment, the increases in DW of both leaves and shoots were 1.5-fold at the 1.5% PPFD and 3-fold (for leaves) and 4.5-fold (for shoots) under 100% PPFD. In water-sprayed control plants grown under 1.5% PPFD shoot length also increased significantly, although these shoots contained more ABA (assessed by capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry) than those of plants grown under 100% PPFD. These results show that ABA sprayed on to leaves promotes growth in I. paraguariensis plants by alleviating diurnal water stress.
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