Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2015 Oct 16;5:13094. doi: 10.1038/srep13094

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

Copyright © 2015, Macmillan Publishers Limited

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

PMC Copyright notice

The phenotypes of the chilling-tolerant cucumber variety JY-3 and the chilling-sensitive cucumber variety JC-4 before (a,c) and after (b) 9 h of whole plant chilling-light treatment or shoot-special chilling-light treatment (d) The osmotic potential (Ψ_s, e) transpiration rate (E, f) net photosynthetic rate (Pn, g) the quantum yield of electron transfer through PSII (ΦPSII, h) in the JY-3 leaves and the JC-4 leaves before and after 9 h of whole plant chilling-light treatment (whole) or shoot-special chilling-light treatment (shoot; 6 °C and 150 μmol m⁻² s⁻¹ light). Values represent means ± SE, and each data point is the average of 10 independent plants. Different letters indicate significant differences at P < 0.05.