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/tˈɜːɡɐ/
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NOUN
- (biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane
How To Use turgor In A Sentence
- Root and stem xylem embolism, stomatal conductance, and leaf turgor in Acer grandidentatum populations along a soil moisture gradient. Survivorship Bias « Climate Audit
- Host trees that are under stress, including either climate stress or stress from mechanical breakage, have reduced growth reserves, less pitch, and lower turgor pressure, and so are less able to resist spruce bark beetle attacks. Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic
- Thus, osmolytes are needed to provide the driving force for water influx to increase turgor.
- Tree health increases host resistance to beetle attack: healthy spruce trees can successfully resist moderate numbers of beetle attacks by opposing the wood-boring activity of females entering the tree to lay eggs with pitch under high turgor pressure [9]. Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic
- They actually take some of the blood, they re-hydrate it, give it a little bit more turgor. CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2007
- However, they decline with age, and this leads to drier skin and loss of cell volume or 'turgor'. Undefined
- Methods that involve detaching parts of the plant are destructive and survival studies rely on qualitative observation of physical symptoms of water deficit stress such as turgor loss, chlorosis, and other qualities that can vary greatly between specimens and are also sensitive to experimental conditions. HappyNews - Top Stories
- It is a feature of the results in Fig.2 that sucrose efflux and K + efflux respond similarly to rises in turgor, including the larger rise at highest turgor seen in P. vulgaris though not always in V. faba.
- Cells that separated usually maintained their turgor and the separation process took place through progressive failure of middle lamellar material seen as strands between separating cells.
- Are diurnal changes of turgor and leaf growth correlated with each other?