Water stress and senescence increase calcium oxalate crystals and decrease their solubility in amaranth leaves
Ivan Takeshi Cerritos‐Castro, Alberto Barrera-Pacheco, Araceli Patrón‐Soberano…·Ana Paulina Barba de la Rosa
The paper investigates how water stress and senescence affect calcium oxalate crystal abundance and solubility in amaranth leaves, finding that stress and aging increase crystal abundance and reduce solubility, contradicting the carbon-source hypothesis.