Every time the temperature drops, a cloud passes overhead, or the sun sets, a plant makes a choice: Keep its microscopic ...

Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...

Plants adjust cellular pressure to respond to environmental factors. The evolution of stomata played a major role in changing ...

To avoid this, an individual plant may open its stomata and evaporate water which will lower the leaf temperature. Thus, one may hypothesize that leaves in the sun should have higher stomata density ...

That process, called carbon fixation, resulted in the assembly of two three-carbon molecules called 3-phosphoglycerate (3-PGA ...

How do plants breathe through stomata? Key regulators of stomata are plant vacuoles, fluid-filled organelles bound by a single membrane called the tonoplast. Plant vacuoles are fluid-filled ...

the radius is 0.20 mm. Area = πr 2 = 3.14 × 0.20 × 0.20 = 0.13 mm 2 The number of stomata in the field of view is 12.

In this lab, stomata density variation likely results from interacting environmental factors (e.g. CO 2, temperature, water, etc.); therefore, higher stomata density might be consistent with a student ...

Stomata, microscopic pores on plant leaves, regulate gas exchange and water loss by opening or closing in response to environmental cues. Guard cells surrounding each stoma regulate this process ...

In his investigation of stomatal distribution he gave precision to the general observations of Zalenski and others, in particular that in dry conditions leaves tend to have more stomata per unit ...