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Stomatal Opening Quantitatively Related to Potassium Transport

Evidence from Electron Probe Analysis ¹

^a Michigan State University-Atomic Energy Commission Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823

When stomata of Vicia faba opened (from a stomatal aperture of about 2 micrometers to one of 12 micrometers) the solute content of the guard cells increased by 4.8 x 10^–12 osmoles per stoma. During the same time an average of 4.0 x 10^–12 gram equivalents of K⁺ were transported into each pair of guard cells. This amount of K⁺, if associated with dibasic anions, is sufficient to produce the changes in guard cell volume and osmotic pressure associated with stomatal opening. Analysis of Cl, P, and S showed that these elements were not transported in significant amounts during stomatal opening. This finding suggests that the anions balancing K⁺ were predominantly organic. K⁺ was specifically required because no other elements, likely to be present as cations, were found to accumulate in appreciable quantities in guard cells of open stomata.

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