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There are now many reports in the literature that stomatal behaviour, leaf growth and other aspects of shoot physiology are influenced by changes in the edaphic environment in the vicinity of the plant root. Examples of such changes are soil drying and flooding with fresh or saline water. The general view is that these perturbations may lead to reduction in leaf turgor and may therefore influence physiology via a change in water relations. More recently, however, it has become clear that this is not always the case and that shoot physiology will show a response to soil drying (Davies et al. 1980; Davies and Sharp 1981), salinity (Termaat et al. 1985) and freshwater inundation (Jackson and Kowalewska 1983) even when leaf water relations are not perturbed.
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Rosa da Costa, A., Metcalfe, J., Lodge, T.A., Davies, W.J. (1987). Soil drying and the resulting chemical and hydraulic effects on leaf growth. In: Tenhunen, J.D., Catarino, F.M., Lange, O.L., Oechel, W.C. (eds) Plant Response to Stress. NATO ASI Series, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70868-8_16
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