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    Plant Water Relations

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    This document outlines plant water relations and discusses several key topics: 1. It explains how water moves through plants, driven by differences in water potential between areas of high and low potential. Water potential is calculated based on pressure, osmotic, and gravitational potentials. 2. The mechanism of xylem transport is described, relying on cohesion, adhesion, and tension to move water upwards from the roots through dead tracheids and vessels. 3. Methods for measuring water potential are provided, including thermocouple psychrometry, pressure bombs, and Chardakov's method, which allow calculating water potential based on pressure and osmotic potentials.

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    This document outlines plant water relations and discusses several key topics: 1. It explains how water moves through plants, driven by differences in water potential between areas of high and low potential. Water potential is calculated based on pressure, osmotic, and gravitational potentials. 2. The mechanism of xylem transport is described, relying on cohesion, adhesion, and tension to move water upwards from the roots through dead tracheids and vessels. 3. Methods for measuring water potential are provided, including thermocouple psychrometry, pressure bombs, and Chardakov's method, which allow calculating water potential based on pressure and osmotic potentials.

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    This document outlines plant water relations and discusses several key topics: 1. It explains how water moves through plants, driven by differences in water potential between areas of high and low potential. Water potential is calculated based on pressure, osmotic, and gravitational potentials. 2. The mechanism of xylem transport is described, relying on cohesion, adhesion, and tension to move water upwards from the roots through dead tracheids and vessels. 3. Methods for measuring water potential are provided, including thermocouple psychrometry, pressure bombs, and Chardakov's method, which allow calculating water potential based on pressure and osmotic potentials.

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    Plant Water Relations

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    Romel Ramos
    This document outlines plant water relations and discusses several key topics: 1. It explains how water moves through plants, driven by differences in water potential between areas of high and low potential. Water potential is calculated based on pressure, osmotic, and gravitational potentials. 2. The mechanism of xylem transport is described, relying on cohesion, adhesion, and tension to move water upwards from the roots through dead tracheids and vessels. 3. Methods for measuring water potential are provided, including thermocouple psychrometry, pressure bombs, and Chardakov's method, which allow calculating water potential based on pressure and osmotic potentials.

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    Outline – Plant Water Relations

    I. Water movement and thermodynamics


    A. How does water move? From high potential to low potential
    1. Water moves from
    high activity to low activity
    high temperature to low temperature
    high pressure to low pressure
    high chemical potential to low chemical potential
    high Ψ to low Ψ
    B. Measurement of water potential (Ψ)
    1. Ψ = Ψp + Ψs + Ψg (water potential = pressure + osmotic + gravitational potential)
    a) Pressure - force caused by pressure
    b) Osmotic (also called Solute) - influenced by solute concentration
    c) Gravitational - due to gravity
    C. Calculation of water potential
    1. What's important? .... pressure and osmotic
    2. Calculating osmotic water potential
    Ψs = -miRT, where m = molality, i = ionization constant, R is a constant, and T is
    temperature
    II. How does water move (remember apoplast, xylem, tracheids, vessels, water, dead)?
    A. Mechanism of xylem transport (cohesion-adhesion-tension hypothesis)
    1. Tracheids and vessels usually dead, empty cells
    2. Transport by bulk flow - driven by transpiration
    a) Transpiration causes "suction" and negative pressure on water in xylem
    3. Important characteristics of water
    a) Cohesion - attraction of water molecules to each other
    b) Adhesion - attraction of water to other molecules (like cell walls)
    c) Tension - ability of water to withstand negative pressure
    III. Methods for measuring water potential
    A. Water potential (Ψ)
    1. Ψ = Ψp + ΨS (water potential = pressure + osmotic potentials)
    2. When water moves it causes a ΔΨ (note ΔG)
    a) Water moves from high to low (low ΔG - high ΔG = negative ΔG)
    3. Why is water potential important?
    a) It is the chemical potential of water in a system
    b) It is the indirect determinant of water movement
    4. How is water potential measured?
    a) Thermocouple psychrometry - based on relative humidity of equilibrated
    sample
    b) Pressure bomb - leaf placed in a chamber with pressure (assume osmotic
    potential is negligible)
    c) Chardakov's Method (assume Ψp [solute for assay] = 0; so, Ψ = Ψs)
    1) Line up tubes of known solute concentration and add some dye
    2) Immerse tissue in duplicate samples of solute and allow to
    equilibrate
    3) Remove tissue and the add one drop of colored solution to each
    corresponding tube
    a)) If drop rises, water potential of tissue is lower
    b)) If drop sinks, water potential of tissue is higher
    4) Then calculate Ψ assuming Ψ = Ψs
    Ψs = -miRT, where m = molality, i = ionization constant, R is a
    constant, and T is temperature
    5. What are units of water potential?
    a) Bars (1 bar = 0.98 atmospheres or 0.10 MPa)
    B. Other potentials - destroy pressure potential by freezing (rupturing) cells

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