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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Secreting salt glands constrain cuticle fracture to enhance desalination efficiency.

Melissa H Mai, Fulton E Rockwell, Juan M Losada, Nya Nicholson, Zhigang Suo, N Michele Holbrook

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Melissa H MaiDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.ORCID 0000-0002-9426-7018
Fulton E RockwellDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.ORCID 0000-0002-2527-6033
Juan M LosadaDepartment of Subtropical Fruit Crops, Institute for Mediterranean and Subtropical Horticulture 'La Mayora' (Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea "La Mayora", Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Málaga 29010, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7966-5018
Nya NicholsonDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.ORCID 0009-0005-0809-0818
Zhigang SuoJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.ORCID 0000-0002-4068-4844
N Michele HolbrookDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.ORCID 0000-0003-3325-5395

Funding

FULBRIGHT | Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program FULBR23036Hertz Foundation (HF) N/AMEC | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) PID2021-129074OB-100National Science Foundation (NSF) DMR-2011754NSF | National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) DGE1745303)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plants responding to excessive soil salinity by discharging brine onto their leaf surface risk dehydration through the osmotic continuity between the living tissue and the surface brine, which further enriches with evaporation. Cuticle cracks have long been identified as essential for salt to reach the leaf surface but enable a potentially desiccating continuity between the brine and the gland interior. Using the secreting salt gland of

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Plant LeavesSaltsSalt ToleranceCell MembraneModels, BiologicalOsmosisSalinitySoilSolanaceaeSaltsSoildesalinationfracture mechanicshalophytesplant physiologysalt glands

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