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Osmoregulation or Turgor Regulation in Chara? ¹

Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York 14260

Chara corallina Klein ex Willd. wm. R.D.W. (= C. australis R. Br.), a fresh water alga, maintains a constant internal osmotic pressure when external osmotic pressure is increased. This results in a decrease in turgor pressure. Chara osmoregulates effectively in the presence of high CaCl₂ and raffinose, but is less efficient in response to increased NaCl. Decreasing external pH from 7 to 5 results in a decrease in turgor, but increasing it to values as high as 9 has no effect. Increasing the daily amount of light from 0.5 to 24 hours has no effect on turgor.

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