Pilar Macarena Gil Montenegro

 

Study of avocado (Persea americana Mill.) physiological responses to different soil water-to-air ratios and the transmission of root-to-shoot electrical signals in response of soil water deficit and root hypoxia.

 

PhD Thesis

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal

Santiago, Chile

June 2008

 

 

Contents

Title Page, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents and Figure Index

Chapter 1
Introduction

Chapter 2
Original article.
Effect of the soil water-to-air ratio on water status, net CO2  assimilation, biomass and vascular anatomy of avocado trees

Chapter 3
Research note. Effect of waterlogging on plant water status, leaf gas exchange and biomass of avocado

Chapter 4
Original article. Effect of hydrogen peroxide injection into heavy loam clay soil on plant water status, net CO2 assimilation, biomass and vascular anatomy of avocado trees

Chapter 5
Original article. Root to leaf electrical signaling in avocado in response to light and soil water content

Chapter 6
Original article. Electrical signaling, stomatal conductance, ABA and ACC content in avocado trees in response to drought or root hypoxia

Chapter 7
Concluding remarks

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