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Quantifying Soil Moisture Content Under Drought

 
   

Quantifying Transpiration Under Drought

 
   

Leaf Water Potential-Early and Late

 

Quantifying Leaf Growth Under Drought

 

Sap Extraction Methods

Sap was collected and composition was compared using the 3 methods shown below:

 
Mesocotyl Natural Root Pressure
-Collection of xylem sap from five plants simultaneously
 
Pressure Chambers for Xylem Sap Collection from Maize Seedlings
(Chambers custom built by CHPT in Delaware to our specifications)
 
Collection from a Leaf
 by Pressuriation of Roots
Six chambers can be used in parallel to collect sap
 
 
 
 

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