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What is dry weight in plants?


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Dry weight in plants:

  1. The weight of any plant or any other organism part after all its water content has been removed by drying.
  2. The dry weight is an estimate of a body or of a body sample's weight when all water has been removed, it means the weight of the sample, excluding the weight of the water in the sample.
  3. The dry weight is determined by means of drying processes that would remove water.
  4. Dry weight represents total organic and inorganic matter in the tissue or water content present in the plant cells

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