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McCain DC, Croxdale J, Markley JL. Water is allocated differently to chloroplasts in sun and shade leaves. Plant Physiol. 1988;86(1):16-8doi: 10.1104/pp.86.1.16.
McCain, D. C., Croxdale, J., & Markley, J. L. (1988). Water is allocated differently to chloroplasts in sun and shade leaves. Plant physiology, 86(1), 16-8. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.86.1.16
McCain, D C, et al. "Water is allocated differently to chloroplasts in sun and shade leaves." Plant physiology vol. 86,1 (1988): 16-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.86.1.16
McCain DC, Croxdale J, Markley JL. Water is allocated differently to chloroplasts in sun and shade leaves. Plant Physiol. 1988 Jan;86(1):16-8. doi: 10.1104/pp.86.1.16. PMID: 16665860; PMCID: PMC1054419.
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Plant Physiol. 1988 Jan;86(1):16-8. doi: 10.1104/pp.86.1.16.

Water is allocated differently to chloroplasts in sun and shade leaves.

Plant physiology

D C McCain, J Croxdale, J L Markley

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406.

PMID: 16665860 PMCID: PMC1054419 DOI: 10.1104/pp.86.1.16

Abstract

Hydrogen-1 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to study water allocation in cell compartments of sun and shade leaves. NMR spectra of Acer platanoides were resolved into two peaks that were assigned to chloroplast and nonchloroplast water. Sun leaves contained 1.7 times more water per unit area of surface than shade leaves, and the water was allocated differently. Chloroplasts in sun leaves contained 17% of the total leaf water versus 47% in shade leaves. Comparing equal leaf surface areas, the chloroplasts in shade leaves contained 60% more water than those in sun leaves.

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