Annals of Botany 40: 669-679, 1976
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RESEARCH-ARTICLE |
Changes with Age in the Status of Water and Tissue Characteristics in Individual Leaves of Vicia faba L.
Department of Agricultural Botany, the University Reading, England
Received: 30 June 1975
Leaf-water potential (
) and relative water content (R) of leaves at different position on the plant were different on any one day. This was because the effect of environment on
and R and of age on physical and chemical properties of tissues varied with the position of the leaf. Changes with age in the physical and chemical properties of a leaf depended on the time it emerged in the life of the plant.