Osmotic Factors of Dehardening in Cornus florida L. 1
AUTOR(ES)
Williams, Jerry M.
RESUMO
The killing temperature for cortical cells from the flowering dogwood changes abruptly from −25 C to −15 C during dehardening. Cell sap concentration, minimum critical cell volume, and osmotically inactive cell volume show a progressive change during dehardening, but only cell sap concentration is correlated directly with the killing temperature, showing the same step change. There is a limit to the extent to which hardy dogwood cells can be osmotically reduced in volume. Beyond this limiting volume, the extracellular osmotically can be increased without further volume reduction. Ultimately the cell succumbs, presumably to an osmotic pressure gradient. Nonhardy cells do not exhibit this resistance to shrinkage. The ability to resist volume reduction is probably a crucial factor in the freezing resistance of dogwood cortical cells.
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