Table III.
Effect of soil water treatment, averaged over cultivars, on free amino acid concentrations in soybean leaf tissue for Experiment 3
There was no significant cultivar ×water treatment interaction for any leaf tissue amino acids.
| Water Treatmenta
|
Day of Treatment at Harvest
|
Amino Acid Concentration
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ser | Asn | Glu | Val | Ile | Leu | Phe | ||
| μmol gdw−1 | ||||||||
| WD | 4 | 12.87 | 7.85 | 9.70 | 5.09 | 3.76 | 4.46 | 3.82 |
| WD fb RW | 6 | 9.08 | 3.19 | 4.76 | 1.22 | 0.27 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| WW | 6 | 8.76 | 1.18 | 5.08 | 1.57 | 0.23 | 0.32 | 0.34 |
| LSD 0.05 | 2.52 | 3.02 | 1.68 | 1.12 | 0.96 | 1.22 | 0.96 | |
a
WD, Water-deficit treatment harvested at FTSW of 0.08; WD fb RW, water deficit followed by rewatering harvested at FTSW = 0.6; WW, well watered harvested at FTSW = 0.6.