Abscisic acid acts essentially on stomata, not on the xylem, to improve drought resistance in tomato
Plant, Cell &Amp; Environment, 8.
TL;DR:
Lower water loss in plants with higher ABA meant that lethal water potentials associated with embolism occurred later during drought in sp12 plants, followed by WT, and then by the ABA-deficient mutants.
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