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Plant Physiology 93:1610-1619 (1990)
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Development and Growth Regulation

Wall Extensibility and Cell Hydraulic Conductivity Decrease in Enlarging Stem Tissues at Low Water Potentials 1

Hiroshi Nonami2 and John S. Boyer

College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware, Lewes, Delaware 19958, College of Agriculture, University of Delaware, Lewes, Delaware 19958

Measurements with a guillotine psychrometer (H Nonami, JS Boyer [1990] Plant Physiol 94: 1601-1609) indicate that the inhibition of stem growth at low water potentials (low {psi}w) is accompanied by decreases in cell wall extensibility and tissue hydraulic conductance to water that eventually limit growth rate in soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.). To check this conclusion, we measured cell wall properties and cell hydraulic conductivities with independent techniques in soybean seedlings grown and treated the same way, i.e. grown in the dark and exposed to low {psi}w by transplanting dark grown seedlings to vermiculite of low water content. Wall properties were measured with an extensiometer modified for intact plants, and conductances were measured with a cell pressure probe in intact plants. Theory was developed to relate the wall measurements to those with the psychrometer. In the elongation zone, the plastic deformability of the walls decreased when measured with the extensiometer while growth was inhibited at low {psi}w. It increased during a modest growth recovery. This behavior was the same as that for the wall extensibility observed previously with the psychrometer. Tissue that was killed before measurement with the extensiometer also showed a similar response, indicating that changes in wall extensibility represented changes in wall physical properties and not rates of wall biosynthesis. The elastic compliance (reciprocal of bulk elastic modulus) did not change in the elongating or mature tissue. The hydraulic conductivity of cortical cells decreased in the elongating tissue and increased slightly during growth recovery in a response similar to that observed with the psychrometer. We conclude that the plastic properties of the cell walls and the conductance of the cells to water were decreased at low {psi}w but that the elastic properties of the walls were of little consequence in this response.

2 Present address: Department of Bio-mechanical Systems, College of Agriculture, Ehime University, Tarumi, Matsuyama 790, Japan.

1 Supported by Department of Energy grant DE-FG02-87ER13776 and a grant from E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company to J.S.B.




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