BIOL 031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Water Potential, Semipermeable Membrane, Potential Gradient

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Movement of water throughout a plant is driven by the water potential gradient. Water potential quantifies the tendency of water to move from one area to another due to osmosis, gravity or mechanical pressure. Osmosis water movement across semi-permeable membrane when there is a difference in concentration gradient of solutes (difference in water potential) Osmosis leads to water uptake by roots from soil (plants to have high solute concentration in the root) Cohesion attraction of molecules to one another. Adhesion attraction of water molecules to other surfaces (resist downward pull) Surface tension water molecules in center pulled downward. Xylem tissue can act as a capillary tube (xylem is dead) H2o moves passively from the soil (wet) to the air (dry) along the potential gradient. Diffuses out of leaf (air has much less water vapor than leaf interior) = transpiration. Diffusion of water out of leaf draws water from xylem into leaf.

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