[Arabidopsis] PEG & Drought

[Tobias Baskin]

Gaston,
	You need to measure water potential. You start by measuring 
the potential of the PEG solution. THen as your treatment progresses 
you need to measure the water potential of the leaves (or whatever 
organ you are interested). This will depend entirely on the growth 
conditions (transpiration rate, etc) and plant genotype. You can make 
relative comparisons without measuring water potential, but to relate 
it to other studies and to actual stress levels, you need to measure 
the water potential.

	Hope this helps,
			Tobias Baskin

>Hi All
>
>I have found some papers that use PEG 6000 in theirs drought studies 
>but I could
>not find an explanation about how to correlated PEG concentration with drought
>severity. Any comment is more than welcome
>
>Gaston
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