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Ch. 3 Water Relations/Energy Balance. Water potential tour. Examine soil to air pathway of water. Fig. 3.2a. Water in the plant: stem xylem. Water in the plant: stem xylem. Xylem cells Vessels vs. tracheids. Water in the plant: stem xylem. Water cohesion (stick together)
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Water potential tour..... • Examine soil to air pathway of water Fig. 3.2a
Water in the plant: stem xylem • Xylem cells • Vessels vs. tracheids
Water in the plant: stem xylem • Water cohesion (stick together) • Water adhesion (stick charged surfaces: cell walls)
Water in the plant: stem xylem • Adhesion: • Slows movement • Strengthens ________ • Small dia. cells: more water-wall contact/unit vol. (withstand ________)
Water in the plant: stem xylem • SO: plants (or parts) under stress make small cells! • Ex, Sequoiadendron gigantea (big tree)
Water in the plant: stem xylem • 102 ft. around • 2,145 tons Boyd Bro: 1984!
Water in the plant: stem xylem • Conifer: tracheids • Smaller @ top (psi lowest)
Water in the plant: stem xylem • Other small cells: • desert plants (Larrea: creosote bush)
Water in the plant: stem xylem • Other exs. small cells: • salt marsh plants Salicornia virginica
Water in the plant: leaf • Steepest drop psi b/w leaf/air
Water in the plant: leaf • Air “dry:” Most plants wilt when soil psi = -1.5 Mpa (permanent wilting point: can’t recover) • Humidity > 97% to be -1.5 MPa or greater -1.5 MPa
Water in the plant: leaf • Water exits thru: • epidermis (cuticular transpiration): <10% • stomates (stomatal transpiration): most loss Fig. 3.9a Fig. 3.9b
How control leaf water loss? • 1) Cuticle • Ex: Cakile constricta
How control leaf water loss? • 2) Stomate properties • Density: few saves water • But
How control leaf water loss? • 2) Stomate properties • Density affected: light, temp., CO2(more CO2 -- density less) • Density change last 200 yr?
How control leaf water loss? • 2) Stomate properties • Arrangement: top/bottom • Often: more
How control leaf water loss? • 2) Stomate properties • Behavior: close stomates--abscisic acid Abscisic acid
How control leaf water loss? • 3) Boundary layer • Boundary layer (BL): Slow-flowing • Water diffuses (slow) • Thick BL slows loss
How control leaf water loss? • 3) BL thickness • BL thickness (delta) • Decreases as wind increases • Increases as leaf size • Big leaves—thick
How control leaf water loss? • 3) BL thickness • How increase BL thickness? • Increase leaf Ceratiola ericoides Magnolia macrophylla
How control leaf water loss? • 3) BL thickness • How increase BL thickness? • entire
How control leaf water loss? • 3) BL thickness • How increase BL thickness? • Do NOT divide blade
How control leaf water loss? • How increase BL w/o change leaf dimensions? • Hairs (trichomes) or spines (modified ______)
How control leaf water loss? • Stomatal crypts: stomates
How control leaf water loss? • Increases dist. H2O diffuses (slows loss) • BL
Dew (Good and Bad) • Dew: Water condensation • Good dew: Reduce loss • increases
Bad Dew • CO2 diffuses 10,000x slower H2O than air • Decrease CO2 uptake • Response: unwettable leaves Leaf from cloud forest plant