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Botany

Plasmolysis

Plasmolysis

  • It is the shrinkage of the protoplast of a cell wall under the influence of a hypertonic solution.

                                              Figure: Plasmolysis

  • Reduction in the diffusion pressure of water in a solution on its most pure state is called diffusion pressure deficit (DPD). Diffusion pressure deficit is called suction pressure . DPD=OP-WP (=TP)