. 2017 Apr 28;8:662. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00662

Table 2.

Effect of water treatments on plant water flux and soil and leaf water potentials measured after 10 h of darkness.

Genotypes and traits	No water	Partially watered	Fully watered
Inbred B73
Root pressure (Ψ_R) (MPa)	0.0005 (0.0005)^b	0.015 (0.020)^b	0.078 (0.050)^a
Root flow rate (Q_R) (mg s^-1)	0.009 (0.005)^b	0.054 (0.070)^b	0.284 (0.081)^a
Nighttime evapotranspiration (mg s^-1)	0.376 (0.134)^b	–	0.905 (0.219)^a
Nighttime transpiration (mg s^-1)	–	–	0.131 (0.146)
Pre-dawn Ψ_leaf (MPa)	1.71 (0.28)^a	0.395 (0.204)^b	0.173 (0.044)^c
Pre-dawn Ψ_soil (MPa)	0.777 (0.571)^a	0.274 (0.234)^b	0.008 (0.016)^b
Inbred CML103
Root pressure (Ψ_R) (MPa)	0.0008 (0.0005)^b	0.014 (0.017)^ab∗	0.052 (0.047)^a∗
Root flow rate (Q_R) (mg s^-1)	0.009 (0.007)^c	0.115 (0.132)^b	0.443 (0.092)^a
Nighttime evapotranspiration (mg s^-1)	0.693 (0.240)^b	–	1.04 (0.204)^a
Nighttime transpiration (mg s^-1)	–	–	0.182 (0.106)
Pre-dawn Ψ_leaf (MPa)	1.09 (0.36)^a	0.232 (0.084)^b	0.138 (0.077)^b
Pre-dawn Ψ_soil (MPa)	0.468 (0.235)^a	0.190 (0.117)^b	0.006 (0.009)^c

Tukey mean separation (α = 0.05) is denoted with lowercase letters. Borderline significance (α = 0.10) is denoted with an ‘^∗’. Values in parentheses denote 1 SD.