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The Influence of Soil Drought on the Vitality of Forest Plants

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The vitality of the plant, that means its ability to perform actively all biochemical and physiological processes conditioning life, is impaired by water deficiency. The increase in reaction resistances by means of depriving the plant of its free intramicellar water important for the chemical transpositions paralyses “active vitality” with increasing dehydration of the organs (Stocker 1947). The active vitality of the plant which declines with the increasing water deficits becomes quite evident in gaseous exchange studies in intermittent light (alternating periods of light and dark) under climatic conditions.

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Polster, H. (1965). The Influence of Soil Drought on the Vitality of Forest Plants. In: Slavík, B. (eds) Water Stress in Plants. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3593-4_24

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