Predawn leaf water potential of grapevines is not necessarily a good proxy for soil moisture

Autor: Thomas Groenveld, Charles Obiero, Yingxue Yu, Markus Flury, Markus Keller
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: BMC Plant Biology, Vol 23, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2229
DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04378-6
Popis: Abstract Background In plant water relations research, predawn leaf water potential (Ψpd) is often used as a proxy for soil water potential (Ψsoil), without testing the underlying assumptions that nighttime transpiration is negligible and that enough time has passed for a hydrostatic equilibrium to be established. The goal of this research was to test the assumption Ψpd = Ψsoil for field-grown grapevines. Results A field trial was conducted with 30 different cultivars of wine grapes grown in a single vineyard in arid southeastern Washington, USA, for two years. The Ψpd and the volumetric soil water content (θv) under each sampled plant were measured multiple times during several dry-down cycles. The results show that in wet soil (Ψsoil > − 0.14 MPa or relative extractable water content, θe > 0.36), Ψpd was significantly lower than Ψsoil for all 30 cultivars. Under dry soil conditions (Ψsoil
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