For the first time, scientists have captured real-time videos of plants 'breathing' by observing their leaf pores, called ...

Plants must breathe carbon dioxide to live, but every breath causes them to lose water that they naturally want to conserve. How do they manage this dilemma? Until now, observing this mechanism ...

A team of researchers led by Drs. Momoko Takagi and Yosuke Toda (concurrently affiliated with phytometrics co. ltd.) at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM) at Nagoya University, ...

correlation and causation: Many students do not understand the fundamental difference between correlation and causation. In this lab, stomata density variation likely results from interacting ...

Plant leaves are protected from drying out by an airtight wax layer. They breathe and release water through microscopic pores called stomata. Every year 40% of atmospheric CO 2 and twice the volume of ...

Brassinosteroids, a class of plant hormones, play an important role in determining the number of leaf stomata, but the underlying mechanism was until now not well understood. Brassinosteroids are ...

But why, you might ask, might it be adaptive for a plant to control its rates of water loss and CO 2 uptake? One answer can be found in the sun. Generally, plant photosynthetic apparati are only ...

As global temperatures rise and regions become exposed to increasingly extreme conditions such as droughts, the need for hardy, water-efficient crops grows. Through the study of leaf stomata, research ...

Drug delivery has long been a core field of medical research. Organic and inorganic-based nanoparticles such as liposomes, micelles, and dendrimers have been developed to deliver drugs precisely to ...