Growth-sustaining Water Potential Distributions in the Primary Corn Root: A NONCOMPARTMENTED CONTINUUM MODEL.
Growth-sustaining Water Potential Distributions in the Primary Corn Root: A NONCOMPARTMENTED CONTINUUM MODEL.
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玉米主根中维持生长的水势分布:非配室连续模型。
DOI:
10.1104/pp.66.5.859
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发表时间:
1980
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影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
K. K. Wagner
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作者:
W. Silk;K. K. Wagner
An equation is derived from transport theory to relate local growth rate to local water potential in an expanding tissue. For a noncompartmented continuum model, the relative elemental growth rate (L) equals the divergence of the tensor product of hydraulic conductivity (K) and the gradient of water potential, psi, i.e. L = big dn tri, open * [K . big dn tri, open psi]. This equation is solved numerically using published values of L and K to show the water potential distribution which can sustain the observed growth pattern in the primary root of Zea mays L. The water potential required to sustain growth decreases from the outside to the inside of the root, and the longitudinal profile shows most negative values near the location of the highest growth rate. A cell originally located near the apex experiences a loss and then a gain in water potential as it is displaced through the growth zone.THE APPROACH DIFFERS FROM PREVIOUS FORMULATIONS IN TWO RESPECTS: the assumption of spatial heterogeneity in growth rate, and the solution for spatial (site-specific) rather than material (cell-specific) values of water potential. The role of air spaces and of components (wall and possibly cytoplasm) of the water-conducting pathway which do not accumulate water remains to be clarified; and, as in earlier work, the most uncertain aspects of the analysis are probably the values for hydraulic conductivity.