Plants have small pores on the underside of their leaves, known as stomata. When the sun rises, these pores open and the plants absorb carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the atmosphere, which they need, in ...

Unlike us, plants don't need pantries full of food to stay alive; the Sun is their pantry. But, like us, they require fairly regular sustenance, which they create via photosynthesis. This seemingly ...

A research team led by the University of Bern has decoded a mechanism by which an inconspicuous succulent regulates the ...

Scientists first to visualize live plant respiration with advanced imaging. Real-time gas exchange through stomata was recorded at cellular-level detail. Breakthrough reveals plant adaptation, aiding ...

Plants know how to do a neat trick. Through photosynthesis, they use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food, belching out the oxygen that we breathe as a byproduct. This evolutionary innovation is ...

Exposure to light and possibly photosynthesis itself could be helping disease-causing bacteria to be internalized by lettuce leaves, making them impervious to washing, according to new research.

I always assumed Clark Moorten watered the cactus at night because the Botanical Garden was closed. But now I'm thinking he had another big reason to set up his sprinkler on the agave and cactus to ...

In this three week lab, students use the technique of making clear nail polish impressions of leaf stomata to generate and test an hypothesis of their choice about how leaf stomata density might vary ...

New research in plants shows that a gene called MUTE is required for the formation of stomata -- the tiny pores that a critical for gas exchange, including releasing the oxygen gas that we breathe.