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Title: Effects of atmospheric CO/sub 2/ concentration and water stress on water relations of wheat

Journal Article · · Bot. Gaz. (Chicago); (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1086/337212· OSTI ID:6119501

Water status and growth responses of wheat (Triticum aestivuum L. (GWO-1809)) to increased CO/sub 2/ concentration and water stress were studied in controlled-environment chambers. Plants were grown in 350 ..mu..l/liter or 1000 ..mu..1/liter CO/sub 2/ at similar temperature, irradiance, and photoperiod conditions. Groups of plants were subjected to water stress by withholding irrigation for one or two cycles of treatment. In most treatments, decreasing leaf water potential was correlated with decreasing osmotic potential. In leaves grown in both low and high CO/sub 2/ concentrations, the osmotic potentials were lower during the second stress cycle than during the first cycle. The stomata of plants in the low CO/sub 2/ concentration closed at a higher leaf water potential than those in the high CO/sub 2/ concentration. Stem and head production was greater in plants grown in high CO/sub 2/ concentrations than those grown in low CO/sub 2/, perhaps the result of turgor-pressure maintenance as leaf water potential decreased. In controlled-environment chambers, wheat plants adapted to water stress, apparently because of high CO/sub 2/ concentration and repeated stress cycles.

Research Organization:
Duke Univ., Durham, NC
OSTI ID:
6119501
Journal Information:
Bot. Gaz. (Chicago); (United States), Vol. 142:2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English