This experiment was carried out to investigate the possible mechanism involved in the turgor stability. For the purpose various water relations parameters were studied. The tissue osmotic pressure was equal to 1.1 MPa and it increased continually throughout the experimental period. The cell wall transpiration tension was found to be equivalent to 0.1 MPa indicating the high values of osmotic pressure of osmotically active solutes present in the cell wall i.e. about 0.6 to 0.7 MPa. Turgor pressure dropped when very high concentrations of NaCI (200 and 250 mol m-3) were applied to the medium. This is presented as evidence that growing leaf cells maintained their turgor pressure in response to the salt stress by taking up the osmotically active solutes present in the cell wall.
