OSMOREGULATION, SOLUTE DISTRIBUTION, AND GROWTH IN SOYBEAN SEEDLINGS HAVING LOW WATER POTENTIALS
OSMOREGULATION, SOLUTE DISTRIBUTION, AND GROWTH IN SOYBEAN SEEDLINGS HAVING LOW WATER POTENTIALS
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00386543
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
BOYER, JS
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作者:
MEYER, RF;BOYER, JS
Soybean (G. max (L.) Merr.) seedlings osmoregulate when the supply of water is limited around the roots. The osmoregulation involves solute accumulation (osmotic adjustment) by the elongating region of the hypocotyls. The relationship between growth, solute accumulation and the partitioning of solutes during osmoregulation. Dark grown seedlings were transplanted to vermiculite containing 1/8 (0.13 .times.) the water of the controls. Within 12-15 h, the osmotic potential of the elongating region had decreased to -12 bar but it was -7 bar in the controls. This osmoregulation involved a true solute accumulation by the hypocotyls, since cell volume and turgor were virtually the same regardless of the water regime. The hypocotyls having low water potentials elongated slowly but, when deprived of their cotyledons, did not elongate or accumulate solute. A cotyledonary origin for the solutes and a dependence of slow growth on osmotic adjustment. The translocation of nonrespired dry matter from the cotyledons to the seedling axis was unaffected by the availability of water but partitioning was altered. Osmotic adjustment occurred in the elongating region of the hypocotyls because solute utilization for growth decreased while solute uptake continued. Adjustment was completed when solute uptake subsequently decreased and uptake then balanced utilization. The control of osmotic adjustment was therefore the rate of solute utilization and the rate of uptake. Elongation was inhibited by unknown factor(s) despite the turgor and substrates associated with osmotic adjustment. The remaining slow elongation depended on osmotic adjustment and represented some optimum between the necessary inhibition for solute accumulation and the necessary growth for seedling establishment.