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 – ...

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

However, they are difficult to observe in action. Each stomata is like a tiny, pressure-operated valve. They have“guard cells” surrounding an opening or pore which lets water vapour out and ...

Gas exchange between the plant and the atmosphere takes place through the stomata, which consist in two bean-shaped guard cells surrounding a pore. (a) Malate and Cl − efflux from the guard ...

A multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the Yale School of the Environment developed a new laser-based method for observing how plants adjust the pressure within their cells in response to the ...