Crops are starting to grow faster with warmer temperatures, following a cool and wet spring, with rapid nutrient uptake and ...

Boyer’s team had found that water loss through the cuticle skewed calculations of CO2 concentrations inside sunflower leaves to be 15% too high when water was abundant and stomata were open. And when ...

But such calculations are based on water loss through stomata, and disregard the water vapour that passes directly through the cuticle. Hanson’s experiments suggest that this is a workable ...

More information: Josef C. Garen et al, Temperature governs the relative contributions of cuticle and stomata to leaf minimum conductance, New Phytologist (2024).

An international research team led by researchers at VIB-UGent has unraveled how the opening and closing of stomata—tiny pores on leaves—is regulated in response to high temperatures and ...

Some trees have stomata on both the top and undersides of their leaves, but most leaves have stomata only on the underside of the leaf. Regular deciduous leaves have broadly distributed stomata ...

A tree's leaves are also responsible for the twin functions of respiration and transpiration. Both of these processes support evapotranspiration which allows the tree to move water and nutrients ...

Revise the structure of a leaf and how it has several adaptations for photosynthesis with this BBC Bitesize Biology KS3 guide.

Because of these properties, the majority of plant gas exchange occurs through stomata. Consequently, composition of cuticle and fast guard cell signaling are thought to be the major factors limiting ...

But such calculations are based on water loss through stomata, and disregard the water vapour that passes directly through the cuticle.