Osmotic Behavior of Oat Coleoptile Tissue in Relation to Growth
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Efforts were made to estimate the water potential difference that is required, between rapidly growing oat coleoptile cylinders and dilute medium, to support the rate of water uptake involved in elongation, (a) by the traditional method of determining the concentration of mannitol in which the tissue neither gains nor loses water, and (b) by measuring the rates of osmotic exchanges induced by treating the tissue with different hypotonic mannitol concentrations. Both methods indicated large water potential differences (3 to 10 atm), in some cases approaching the osmotic pressure of the cells. However, indication was obtained that the rates of osmotic exchanges induced by mannitol solutions, and presumably also the equilibrium response sought in (a), are governed by the rate of diffusional exchange of mannitol with the free space rather than by the permeability of the tissue to water. Osmotic swelling of the tissue measured by immersing it in water after its turgor pressure had been reduced by evaporation, was at least two to four times more rapid than when mannitol was involved. The permeability to water estimated by the evaporation-immersion method indicated that rapidly elongating cylinders have water potentials between -0.8 and -2.5 atm, or between 10 and 25 per cent of their osmotic pressure.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of General Physiology
دوره 47 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1963