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Plant function and evolutionary biology
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Lateral Stresses in Membranes at Low Water Potential

J Wolfe

Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 14(3) 311 - 318
Published: 1987

Abstract

Severe dehydration of biological cells can produce large stresses and substantial strains in the membranes of some organelles. Water contents and water potentials which are critical for cellular damage in rather dry tissues may reflect a limiting stress characteristic of cell membranes. Different levels of tolerance of extreme dehydration may therefore be a result of different cellular osmotic pressures or of different stress-strain characteristics of the cellular membranes. In this paper, data from phospholipid osmotic stress measurements are used to model the stresses generated in membranes in dehydrated phases.

https://doi.org/10.1071/PP9870311

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