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AN EARLY DISCUSSION OF CELL WATER RELATIONS IN THERMODYNAMIC TERMINOLOGY.

AN EARLY DISCUSSION OF CELL WATER RELATIONS IN THERMODYNAMIC TERMINOLOGY. ( 1 9 8 5 ) 8 , 171 Correspondence AN KARLY DISCUSSION Ol CELL WATER RELAIIONS IN IMERMODYNAIVIIC TERMINOLOGY. liarly in the 20th century plant physiologists began to rcali/c that water movement in and out of plant cells is not controlled by diUcrcnccs in osmotic pressure, btit by dilVcrcnccs in what was vai'iously termed stiction force, suctioti tension, net ostnotic pressure, hydrature, or linally, diffusion picssuic deficit (Meyer. I')3S). None of these terms had a satisfactory scientific basis in physical chemistry or thermodynamics. The need for a more soundly based terminology was rccogni/cd by a lew plant scientists who iiitr'odticcd terms sticli as spL'cilic free energy (r.dlciscn, 1941), net influx free energy (Broyer, 1947), and finally the term water ixMcntiai. According to Weatherley (1951) and Owen (1952), the term water potential was lirst tiscd by R. K. Scliolicld dtiriiig tlic discussion at a meeting on water movement in plants sponsored by the Farad;iy SiK'icty at Rotliamsted iti 1949. The term c;unc into increased use al'tcr a paper by Slatyer and Taylor appeared in Nuttire in 1960, apparently stimulated by disctission at a symposium in Madrid in 1959 (Milthorpe, 1960). However, use of tlic tctm potential had been http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Plant Cell & Environment Wiley

AN EARLY DISCUSSION OF CELL WATER RELATIONS IN THERMODYNAMIC TERMINOLOGY.

KRAMER, P. J.
Plant Cell & Environment , Volume 8 (3) – Apr 1, 1985
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( 1 9 8 5 ) 8 , 171 Correspondence AN KARLY DISCUSSION Ol CELL WATER RELAIIONS IN IMERMODYNAIVIIC TERMINOLOGY. liarly in the 20th century plant physiologists began to rcali/c that water movement in and out of plant cells is not controlled by diUcrcnccs in osmotic pressure, btit by dilVcrcnccs in what was vai'iously termed stiction force, suctioti tension, net ostnotic pressure, hydrature, or linally, diffusion picssuic deficit (Meyer. I')3S). None of these terms had a satisfactory scientific basis in physical chemistry or thermodynamics. The need for a more soundly based terminology was rccogni/cd by a lew plant scientists who iiitr'odticcd terms sticli as spL'cilic free energy (r.dlciscn, 1941), net influx free energy (Broyer, 1947), and finally the term water ixMcntiai. According to Weatherley (1951) and Owen (1952), the term water potential was lirst tiscd by R. K. Scliolicld dtiriiig tlic discussion at a meeting on water movement in plants sponsored by the Farad;iy SiK'icty at Rotliamsted iti 1949. The term c;unc into increased use al'tcr a paper by Slatyer and Taylor appeared in Nuttire in 1960, apparently stimulated by disctission at a symposium in Madrid in 1959 (Milthorpe, 1960). However, use of tlic tctm potential had been

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