Extreme water stress and photosynthetic
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L. Kappen; O. L. Lange; E. -D. Schulze; M. Evenari; U. Buschbom
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Article
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1972
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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During the dry season in the Negev desert (Israel) Artemisia herbaalba in its natural habitat has a very low water content. It shows values of negative hydrostatic pressure in the xylem down to --163 bars and an extreme of osmotic potential in the leaves of --92 bars. The diurnal water stress does n