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Your plant is simply guttating, which means it’s secreting excess moisture from its pores, or stomata, as it moves water through its stems and leaves in a process called transpiration. Plants ...
Beevers and I have estimated that in less than four days a negative water potential large enough to pull water up a 100-m tree would arise in the absence of any transpiration (W. Tanner and H ...
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 ...
UC Berkeley climate modelers found that this effect causes a 40 percent increase in transpiration ... "This shifting of water by roots has a physiological effect on the plants, letting them pull ...
American Journal of Botany, Vol. 9, No. 6 (Jun., 1922), pp. 311-329 (19 pages) 1. All plants used in the experiments reported in this paper came from a pure line of barley. The cultures were grown for ...
Purdue Landscape Report: Water covers approximately 71% of Earth’s surface, yet only 3% of the 326 million cubic miles of water on the planet is suitable for growing crops, such as trees.It can be ...
All of Utah remains in severe drought conditions, with 43. 5% of the state still in extreme drought conditions. Our rivers and streams are all flowing at below normal levels, and according to the ...