Process in which cells lose water in a hypertonic solution
Medical condition
Plasmolysis
A red blood cell in a hypertonic solution, causing water to move out of the cell.
Specialty
Cell biology
Causes
Osmosis
Before plasmolysis (top) and after (bottom)
Plasmolysis is the process in which cells lose water in a hypertonic solution. The reverse process, deplasmolysis or cytolysis, can occur if the cell is in a hypotonic solution resulting in a lower external osmotic pressure and a net flow of water into the cell. Through observation of plasmolysis and deplasmolysis, it is possible to determine the tonicity of the cell's environment as well as the rate solute molecules cross the cellular membrane.
two types, either concave plasmolysis or convex plasmolysis. Convex plasmolysis is always irreversible while concave plasmolysis is usually reversible. During...
tumour. The term is also used to refer to the reduction of any swelling. Plasmolysis is the contraction of cells within plants due to the loss of water through...
protozoa cells which do not have cell walls. The reverse process is plasmolysis. Osmotic lysis would be expected to occur when bacterial cells are treated...
: 229 Plasmolysis is the term which describes plant cells when the cytoplasm shrinks from the cell wall in a hypertonic environment. In plasmolysis, the...
often used to introduce students to plant anatomy or to demonstrate plasmolysis. The clear epidermal cells exist in a single layer and do not contain...
hypertonic solutions water flows out of the cell and the cell shrinks (plasmolysis). In hypotonic solutions, water flows into the cell and the cell swells...
cease to function because they become constricted, a condition known as plasmolysis. In plant cells the terms isotonic, hypotonic and hypertonic cannot strictly...
Without sufficient water, plant cells lose turgor, This is known as plasmolysis. If the plant loses too much water, it will pass its permanent wilting...
as wilted anatomical structures. This is more specifically known as plasmolysis. The volume and geometry of the cell affects the value of turgor pressure...
cause the plasma membrane to pull away from the cell wall, leading to plasmolysis. Most plants, however, have the ability to increase solute inside the...
organelles within the remaining cytoplasm against the cell walls. Unlike in plasmolysis (a phenomenon that does not occur in nature), the plasma membrane maintains...
periods of dehydration, however, can lead to permanent wilting, cell plasmolysis, and subsequent death. Since mesophytes prefer moist, well drained soils...
the fruit with sugar. "Sugar tends to draw water from the microbes (plasmolysis). This process leaves the microbial cells dehydrated, thus killing them...
it causes plasmolysis or cell shrinking, similarly in hypotonic solution, bacteria undergoes plasmotysis or turgid state. This plasmolysis and plasmotysis...
placebo A substance or treatment of no intended therapeutic value. plant plasmolysis The process in which cells lose water in a hypertonic solution. pollination...
"Behaviour of plasma membrane, cortical ER and plasmodesmata during plasmolysis of onion epidermal cells". Plant, Cell and Environment. 17 (2): 163–171...
will lead to death. Freezing injury is a result of lost permeability, plasmolysis, and post-thaw cell bursting. When spring comes, or during a mild spell...
Andreas; Walker, Mathias (2014). "Production of solar fuels by CO2 plasmolysis". EPJ Web of Conferences. 79: 01005. Bibcode:2014EPJWC..7901005G. doi:10...
Glycerol helps to maintain intracellular osmotic pressure and prevents plasmolysis in high salinity environments; thus, the accumulation of this compound...
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