An international research team led by researchers at VIB-UGent has unraveled how the opening and closing of stomata—tiny ...

This is the basis for the opening and closing of a stoma, known as stomatal movement, which controls gas exchange necessary for photosynthesis and limits water loss. How do guard cells change ...

Open (left) and closed (right) stomata found on the surface of plants' leaves, stems and other organs. Through the stomata, plants exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide, and lose more than 95 percent ...

One such behavior is the dynamic opening and closing of millions of tiny mouths (called stomata) located on each leaf, through which plants "breathe." In this process they let out water extracted ...

Jade and Rhiannon explain how their stoma bags - which collects their faces - impact on intimacy and their sex lives ...

To avoid this, an individual plant may open its stomata and evaporate water which will lower the leaf temperature. Thus, one may hypothesize that leaves in the sun should have higher stomata density ...

To test whether speed of stomata opening and closing can increase productivity and water use efficiency, researchers added the synthetic light-activated BLINK1 ion channel to guard cells in ...

Two open stomatal pores on the surface of a fern leaf, each surrounded by two kidney-shaped guard cells. Right panel: important moments during the evolution of stomata. Stomata probably evolved in ...

Every time the temperature drops, a cloud passes overhead, or the sun sets, a plant makes a choice: Keep its microscopic pores, called stomata, open to absorb carbon dioxide and continue ...

In plants, guard cells control the stomatal opening by expanding and contracting through ion flux. When a plant senses light, a signal is sent to the guard cell to increase its ion content, which ...

This is the basis for the opening and closing of a stoma, known as stomatal movement, which controls gas exchange necessary for photosynthesis and limits water loss. How do guard cells change ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new laser-based method has been developed to observe pressure changes in plant stomata, enhancing the ability to study plant physiology and evolution. This ...