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Q.Pick out the correct pair :

(a) Oxylophytes - Plants living in ice surface
(b) Hollard - Total soil water content
(c) Chresard - Water not available to plants
(d) Echard - Water available to plants
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Holard denotes the total water content of soil, whether available to plants or not.

In plant-water ecology, the total water held in a soil at any time is called the holard. Of this total, only a portion can actually be absorbed by plant roots against the forces holding water to soil particles; this usable portion is called the chresard (available water), while the remainder, held too tightly by soil particles (below the permanent wilting point) for roots to extract, is called the echard (unavailable water) -- so holard = chresard + echard. Oxylophytes are plants adapted to grow in acidic, often nutrient-poor soils such as bogs and heathlands, not to ice surfaces (which would describe a chionophyte or psychrophyte- …

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