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General Physiology and Biophysics Vol.26, p.40-47, 2007

Title: Effect of temperature on plant elongation and cell wall extensibility
Author: M. Pietruszka, S. Lewicka
Abstract: Lockhart equation was derived for explaining plant cell expansion where both cell wall extension and water uptake must occur concomitantly. Its fundamental contribution was to express turgor pressure explicitly in terms of osmosis and wall mechanics. Here we present a new equation in which pressure is determined by temperature. It also accounts for the role of osmosis and consequently the role of water uptake in growing cell. By adopting literature data, we also attempt to report theoretically the close relation between plant elongation and cell wall extensibility. This is accomplished by the modified equation of growth solved for various temperatures in case of two different species. The results enable to interpret empirical data in terms of our model and fully confirm its applicability to the investigation of the problem of plant cell extensibility in function of environmental temperature. Moreover, by separating elastic effects from growth process we specified the characteristic temperature common for both processes which corresponds to the resonance energy of biochemical reactions as well as to the rapid softening of the elastic modes toward the high temperature end where we encountered viscoelastic and/or plastic behavior as dominating. By introducing analytical formulae connected with growth and elastic properties of the cell wall, we conclude with the statement how these both processes contribute quantitatively to the resonancelike shape of the elongation curve. In addition, the tension versus temperature “phase diagram” for a living plant cell is presented.
Keywords: Azuki bean — Cell extension — Modified growth equation — Phase diagram — Plant elongation — Rice — Temperature
Year: 2007, Volume: 26, Issue: Page From: 40, Page To: 47


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