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Salt‐Induced Hypodermal Transfer Cells in Roots of Prosopis farcta and Ion Distribution within Young Plants
Author(s) -
Winter E.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
botanica acta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.871
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1438-8677
pISSN - 0932-8629
DOI - 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1988.tb00029.x
Subject(s) - shoot , salt (chemistry) , chemistry , selectivity , prosopis , sodium , ion , botany , horticulture , nuclear chemistry , biology , biochemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis
Prosopis farcta was grown on hydroculture with additions of 0.5, 10, 50, and 100 mM NaCl and without salt treatment. In plants from a 0.5 mM NaCl treatment, Cl − was taken up into stems and leaves, but Na + was withheld from the shoot. At 10 mM NaCl, shoot K + concentration was below that of the control; Na + and Cl − were taken up to stems and cotyledons in nearly equimolar amounts. However, in the leaves, Na + concentrations were only half of those of Cl − . With increasing salt stress, Na + and Cl − were transported to the shoot, but kept at relatively low levels in the roots. Na + / K + ratios in roots did not increase proportionally to those in the solution. At an external Na + /K + of > 5 and a root Na + /K + of >1 (10 mM NaCl treatment), K + selectivity was induced which rose exponentially with increasing salt stress; and cell wall protuberances were discovered in the hypodermis at the zone of side root formation. These transfer cells were found neither in roots from the 0.5 mM NaCl treatment nor in the controls. Their possible role in the Na + /K + selectivity of the roots of Prosopis farcta is discussed.