In order to take in carbon dioxide to perform photosynthesis, a plant loses water vapour to the atmosphere as the stomata ...

Scientists have released new and more accurate genome sequences for five species of duckweed. Their research reveals the specific genes responsible for some of the plant's most useful traits, allowing ...

Under the right conditions, duckweed essentially farms itself. Wastewater, ponds, puddles, swamps—you name it. If there's enough sunlight and carbon ...

Spring, though, again, is the moments. When our eyes flutter awake with birdsong; when light comes before alarms; when we ...

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

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

Throughout evolution, plants have continuously adapted to survive in changing environments. Apart from complex structural ...

The trees exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen with the atmosphere through little “mouths” in their leaves and tiny “windows” ...

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

It just requires a little more effort to appreciate. One such behaviour is the dynamic opening and closing of millions of tiny mouths (called stomata) located on each leaf, through which plants ...