Variation in transpiration rate of plant cuttings Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Porometric analysis of transpiration variance of plant cuttings of 8 species in Maowusu Sandland, Inner Mongolia was carried out. Transpiration rate of a plant part changed immediately after cutting. Quantitation and prediction of such a change were different as the nature of the change was relevant to the leaf-water status of the plant which, in turn. was species, habitat and cutting time specific. Therefore, average transpiration rate of a plant cutting measured in a certain time interval was not a representive transpiration rate of the plant without any correction. Based on the present result, the author's suggest that porometry is applicable when a correction is made by a coefficient expressing the difference in transpiration rate between before and after cutting, which can be used to estimate the transpiration rate of the plant.

published proceedings

  • Acta Botanica Sinica

author list (cited authors)

  • Guo, K., Dong, X. J., Zhao, Y. X., & Liu, Z. M.

complete list of authors

  • Guo, K||Dong, XJ||Zhao, YX||Liu, ZM

publication date

  • December 1996