Abstract
With apple parenchymal cells as an example, we demonstrate the expedience of combined analysis of the relaxation and diffusion of water molecules in plant cells by NMR spectroscopy. At small diffusion times, our approach discerns three relaxation components pertaining to water in the vacuole, cytoplasm, and intercellular space. The corresponding self-diffusion coefficients are determined. At long diffusion times, it is possible to distinguish two components. For the slow-relaxing component (vacuolar water) we observe the mode of restricted diffusion. For the fast-relaxing components, the diffusion coefficient anomalously increases with time.
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Abbreviations
- CPMG:
-
Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill
- STE:
-
stimulated echo
- IR:
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inversion-recovery
- RF:
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radio frequency
- RD:
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relaxation decay
- SAP:
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signal attenuation plot
- SDC:
-
self-diffusion coefficient
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Original Russian Text © T.A. Sibgatullin, P.A. de Jager, F.J. Vergeldt, E. Gerkema, A.V. Anisimov, H. Van As, 2007, published in Biofizika, 2007, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 268–276.
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Sibgatullin, T.A., de Jager, P.A., Vergeldt, F.J. et al. Combined analysis of diffusion and relaxation behavior of water in apple parenchyma cells. BIOPHYSICS 52, 196–203 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350907020091
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