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Plant Physiology 46:233-235 (1970)
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Leaf Enlargement and Metabolic Rates in Corn, Soybean, and Sunflower at Various Leaf Water Potentials 1

J. S. Boyer

a Department of Botany, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Rates of photosynthesis, dark respiration, and leaf enlargement were studied in soil-grown corn (Zea mays), soybean (Glycine max), and sunflower (Helianthus annuus) plants at various leaf water potentials. As leaf water potentials decreased, leaf enlargement was inhibited earlier and more severely than photosynthesis or respiration. Except for low rates of enlargement, inhibition of leaf enlargement was similar in all three species, and was large when leaf water potentials dropped to about –4 bars.

Intact sunflower leaves were held for 4 days at leaf water potentials which permitted maximal photosynthesis and respiration, but which inhibited leaf enlargement. Although leaf enlargement did not occur initially, enlargement resumed toward the end of the desiccation period. However, the rate of enlargement was not as rapid as in the well watered control, nor did it return to the control rate when the plant was rewatered.

1 This work was supported by Grants A-028-ILL and B-036-ILL from the Office of Water Resources Research, Department of the Interior.




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