Abstract
Water supply and day length were varied in cold hardiness studies of red osier dogwood plants (Cornus stolonifera Michx.). The frost killing temperature, the content and freezing of stem cortical tissue water along with soil moisture content and tension were evaluated. Seven days of water stress in long and short day photoperiod regimes caused a rapid decrease in soil moisture content and plant water potential. During the same period, the frost hardiness increased from −3 to −11 C. Further water stress treatment had little effect. Control plants in short days showed only a gradual decrease in plant water potential and only gradually increased in frost hardiness while control plants in long days were unchanged. Freezing studies using nuclear magnetic resonance showed that increased hardiness in water-stressed plants resulted from both an increased tolerance of freezing and an increased avoidance of freezing, the latter resulting from higher solute concentration in the tissue solutions. The short day controls also showed similar changes; however, the changes were smaller over the 21 days of the study.
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