Aims Stornata can close to avoid cavitation under decreased soil water availability. This closure can be triggered by hydraulic ('H') and/or chemical signals ('C', 'H + C') By combining plant ...

Root hydraulic conductivity in plants ($Lp_r $) exhibits large variations in response to abiotic stimuli. In this study, we investigated the impact of dynamic ...

Everyone knows that trees combat climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide out of the air. Now, plant leaves are tackling global warming in another way — by serving as models for a technology that ...

TWO paper by Sir Francis Darwin (Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, vol. Ixxxvii.) mark an important advance in the study of the process of transpiration in plants. Hitherto, although transpiration ...

Chinese scientists have created an energy generator that uses transpiration, the process of water moving through a plant, to create electricity. The generator can transform almost all leaves on Earth ...

In a revolutionary breakthrough for renewable energy, the world’s first photovoltaic leaf (PV-leaf) has been developed by researchers at Imperial College London. This leaf-inspired technology mimics ...

As water travels through the xylem in the stem and leaf, it is being replaced by water taken up by the roots. Photosynthesis produces glucose in the green parts of plants, which are often leaves. This ...