water_potential_midday

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• Label: Midday water potential
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0021031
• Type: numeric
• Definition: The average water potential [EnvThes:22311] of a plant's leaf [PO:0025034] and shoot [PO:0009006] mesophyll [PO:0006070] tissue [CARO:0000043] during maximum midday transpiration [ENVO:02500035] and assumed to be the plant's daily minimum [NCIT:C25570] water potential.;The water potential of a plant's leaf or shoot photosynthetic tissue during maximum midday transpiration, the time of day when the plant is most water stressed and has the lowest (most negative) water potential.
• Additional comments: None
• units: MPa
• allowable range: -20 - 0 MPa

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0021031) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 1,003 records. This includes:

• data for 251 species.
• data for 47 families.
• data from 16 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)