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Notes on plant stress physiology

Short, dated notes on questions of method and interpretation in plant stress research. They are working ideas and arguments, not peer-reviewed results, and each says what would test it.

  1. Experimental design

    Are we measuring drought, or plant size?

    In many pot experiments, drought is imposed by saturating the soil and then withholding water for a fixed number of days, often 7 to 10, before measuring. The hidden assumption is that every plant has then experienced the same…