While you might measure how sweaty you are by the size of your pit stains, for avocado growers understanding how much water their trees are losing on a hot day can be a little harder to quantify.

A new study in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution may help farmers irrigate crops more efficiently, with a better understanding of how much water is actually used beneficially by plants in a given ...

IN plant physiology potometry is still frequently considered a suitable method for measuring plant transpiration provided that the plant organs are cut under certain precautions, namely, under very ...