lentil (lens culinaris. medik) is one of the major cool season pulse crops which could suffer damage under severe cold. some physiological parameters such as electrolyte leakage (el) have been used to assess the response of crops to cold conditions. in order to evaluate the possibility of using the el index for assessing the freezing tolerance of lentil genotypes, a factorial experiment carried...

Changes in electrolyte leakage and viability in response to dehydration stress were examined in two species of seeds that do not survive desiccation. Leakage from silver maple (Acer saccharinum L.) seeds increased markedly as seed moisture contents decreased from 45 to 35% (fresh weight basis) and germination decreased from 97 to 5%, coincidentally. Time course curves of imbibitional leakage fr...