Hallo All,
When I was running through the ScienceDaily website to know about the recent happenings in Plants and Animals, I came across this new technique which I thought will be useful for our team as most of us are working on the filed of abiotic stress tolerance of Plants.
In this article, the scientists from UCLA in collaboration with XTBG, China, have found out a new technique called "Osmometry" to quickly access the Plants' Drought Tolerance ability and it takes only 10 mins for a leaf. It is based on an important trait known as "turgor loss point." During drought, the leaf cells' water becomes harder to replace. The turgor loss point is reached when leaf cells become so dehydrated their walls become flaccid. This cell-level loss of turgor -- or swollenness -- causes the leaf to become limp and wilted, and the plant cannot grow.
For more information regarding this can be downloaded from
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00230.x
When I was running through the ScienceDaily website to know about the recent happenings in Plants and Animals, I came across this new technique which I thought will be useful for our team as most of us are working on the filed of abiotic stress tolerance of Plants.
In this article, the scientists from UCLA in collaboration with XTBG, China, have found out a new technique called "Osmometry" to quickly access the Plants' Drought Tolerance ability and it takes only 10 mins for a leaf. It is based on an important trait known as "turgor loss point." During drought, the leaf cells' water becomes harder to replace. The turgor loss point is reached when leaf cells become so dehydrated their walls become flaccid. This cell-level loss of turgor -- or swollenness -- causes the leaf to become limp and wilted, and the plant cannot grow.
For more information regarding this can be downloaded from
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00230.x
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