Corinne Campbell & Daniel Urban teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about how plants breathe. Plants breathe and ...

TWO paper by Sir Francis Darwin (Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, vol. Ixxxvii.) mark an important advance in the study of the process of transpiration in plants. Hitherto, although transpiration ...

Particulate matter deposits on leaves increase plant transpiration and the risk of plants suffering from drought. Particulate matter could thus be contributing more strongly to tree mortality and ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 412, No. 1/2, Part I: Special Issue: Belowground solutions to global challenges (March 2017), pp. 215-233 (19 pages) Aims: A soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC) model for ...

Researchers have identifies a physiologic mechanism in vegetation as cause for Arctic warming. The vapor that plants emit when they breathe serves to lower the land surface temperature, much like ...

Dear Jessica: Can you please tell me what these droplike things are on the leaves in the picture? If it’s a disease, how do I treat it? — Marilyn Von Braunsberg, Oceanside Dear Marilyn: Those sticky ...

This unit takes biological phenomena such as transpiration of plants, laws of thermodynamics, animal behavior and regulation of body temperature, to create innovative, eco-friendly housing and ...

The vapor that plants emit when they breathe serves to lower the land surface temperature, much like watering the yard on a hot day. Until now, the greenhouse effect has been blamed for the rise in ...