Figure 3.

Relationship between simulated fluxes and osmotic gradients. Water fluxes $\left(J_W\right)$ were obtained at 10 s (solid dots) and at the beginning of the osmotic challenge (open dots) from simulations shown in Fig. 4. At 10 s, the relationship between $J_W$ and $\Delta osm$ is nonlinear, just as experimentally observed (8). However, through simulation it is also possible to analyze initial $J_W$ values (open dots), where this relationship is linear, just as predicted by Eq. 1 (R² > 0.96).