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Water and Plant Life pp 225–242Cite as

Water Stress and Hormonal Response

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 19))

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A transient water deficit is a frequent and recurrent phenomenon experienced by most plants. Hence it can be assumed that efficient adaptive mechanisms were developed in the course of evolution which enable plants to cope with water deficits of varying intensities. Evidence is accumulating that these adaptive mechanisms whether rapid, like stomatal movement, or slow, like developmental and morphological adaptation, may involve regulation through changes in the hormone balance of the plant (Hsiao, 1973; Livne and Vaadia, 1972). Plant response to environmental changes requires a complex control system. Even a very simple control system is necessarily made up of several components such as receptor, integrator, modulator, effector and amplifier, and growth regulators may logically be presumed to be part of such a system.

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  1. Botanisches Institut der Universität Würzburg, Mittlerer Dallenbergweg 64, 8700, Würzburg, Fed. Rep. Germany

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  2. Lehrstuhl für Pflanzenökologie, Universität Bayreuth, Am Birkengut, 8580, Bayreuth, Fed. Rep. Germany

    E.-D. Schulze

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Itai, C., Benzioni, A. (1976). Water Stress and Hormonal Response. In: Lange, O.L., Kappen, L., Schulze, ED. (eds) Water and Plant Life. Ecological Studies, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66429-8_14

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