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Osmotic pressure or osmotic value

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Allgemeine Physiologie der Pflanzenzelle / General Physiology of the Plant Cell

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The presence of solutes in solutions or in living cells lowers the activity and the diffusion pressure (Meyer 1945) of the water molecules present. Unless this effect on the diffusion pressure of water is altered in the cell by some other factor such as an increased hydrostatic pressure or turgor pressure, the total concentration of dissolved particles present (molecules, ions, and even colloidal particles) is an index of the water absorbing power of the cell. Usually, however, the presence of solutes is only one of several factors affecting the diffusion pressure of water in a cell. The ability of a cell to absorb water from an adjacent cell or surrounding solution depends upon the magnitudes of all forces affecting the diffusion pressure of water both within the cell and in the adjacent medium1.

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  1. Medizinisches Nobelinstitut für Zellforschung und Genetik, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 60, Schweden

    Günther F. Bahr , T. Caspersson  & Georg Klein ,  & 

  2. Botanisches Institut der Technischen Hochschule, Braunschweig, Deutschland

    Hans J. Bogen (Professor der Botanik) (Professor der Botanik)

  3. Botanisches Institut der Universität München, Menzingerstraße 67, München 19, Deutschland

    Leo Brauner (o. Professor der Botanik) (o. Professor der Botanik)

  4. Botanisches Institut der Universität, Tübingen, Deutschland

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  5. Botanisches Institut der Universität, Helsingfors, Finnland

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  6. Department of Botany, University of California, Davis, California, USA

    H. B. Currier (Associate Professor of Botany) & C. Ralph Stocking (Associate Professor of Botany) (Associate Professor of Botany) &  (Associate Professor of Botany)

  7. Pflanzenphysiologisches Institut, Freien Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 1-3, Berlin-Dahlem, Deutschland

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  8. Chem. Abteilung, Pathologisches Institut der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i. Br., Deutschland

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  12. Institut für spezielle Botanik, Eidg. Technischen Hochschule, Universitätsstr. 2, Zürich 6, Schweiz

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  14. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA

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  15. Dept. Botany and Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

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  16. Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, USA

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  17. Department of Biochemistry, University of Sidney, Sidney, Australia

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  18. Division of Food Preservation and Transport, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Homebush, Australia

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  19. Botanisches Institut der Tierärztl. Hochschule, Hannover, Deutschland

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  22. Universität Stockholm, Kungstensgatan 45, Stockholm Va, Schweden

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Stocking, C.R. (1956). Osmotic pressure or osmotic value. In: Bahr, G.F., et al. Allgemeine Physiologie der Pflanzenzelle / General Physiology of the Plant Cell. Handbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie / Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-94676-9_5

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