Pilar Macarena Gil Montenegro
Study of avocado (Persea americana Mill.) physiological responses to different soil water-to-air ratios and the transmission of root-to-shoot electrical signals in response of soil water deficit and root hypoxia.
PhD Thesis
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal
Santiago, Chile
June 2008
Contents
Title Page, Acknowledgments, Table of Contents and Figure Index
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Original article. Effect of
the soil water-to-air ratio on water status, net CO2 assimilation,
biomass and vascular anatomy of avocado trees
Chapter 3
Research note. Effect of waterlogging on plant water status, leaf gas exchange
and biomass of avocado
Chapter 4
Original article. Effect of hydrogen peroxide injection into heavy loam clay
soil on plant water status, net CO2 assimilation, biomass and
vascular anatomy of avocado trees
Chapter 5
Original article. Root to leaf electrical signaling in avocado in response to
light and soil water content
Chapter 6
Original article. Electrical signaling, stomatal conductance, ABA and ACC
content in avocado trees in response to drought or root hypoxia
Chapter 7
Concluding remarks
Attachments