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the percentage water content of a soil when the plants growing in that soil are first reduced to a wilted condition from which they cannot recover in approximately saturated atmosphere without the addition of water to the
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when placed in a saturated atmosphere for 12 hours. The physical definition of the wilting point, symbolically expressed as
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found that it is a constant (characteristic) of the soil and is independent of environmental conditions.
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proposed it is taken as the soil water content when the soil is under a pressure of −15 bar.
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at −1,500 kPa (−15 bar) of suction pressure, or negative
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A plant rooted in soil that is beyond the wilting point.
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wilt
turgidity
water content
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Homer LeRoy Shantz
pedotransfer function
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Lorenzo A. Richards
Available water capacity
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Nonlimiting water range
Soil plant atmosphere continuum
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