Stanford, CA -- Plants have tiny pores on their leaves called stomata -- Greek for mouths--through which they take in carbon dioxide from the air and from which water evaporates. New work from the lab ...

A similar genetic mechanism between flowering plants and mosses is a result of evolutionary conservation, reports an international team of researchers. They have discovered a genetic mechanism that is ...

Grasses have top-notch border control to conserve water in their leaves. Now, scientists have identified the genetic switch that makes them such masters at taking in carbon dioxide without losing ...

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 ...

How do plants breathe through stomata? Key regulators of stomata are plant vacuoles, fluid-filled organelles bound by a single membrane called the tonoplast. Plant vacuoles are fluid-filled organelles ...

The stomata is considered as the 'mouth' of a plant. An incredible video shows plants "breathing" in real-time. The close-up clip has been captured by biologists at the University of California San ...

Scientists have identified a key element underlying the superior function of stomata -- or tiny, gas-exchanging pores -- in grasses, where stomata function more efficiently than they do in other plant ...

Plants constantly make trade-offs in their decisions: more light means more opportunity for photosynthesis, but then hot temperatures and dry air makes wilting more likely. Stomata - microscopic ...

Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, who tirelessly feed the entire biosphere (including us), are full of ...

In recent years, atmospheric pollution has caused extensive damage to agricultural crops and forests. Masaru Ohme-Takagi and collaborators have discovered that expressing chimeric repressors of the ...

An astonishing new video shows plants “breathing” in real-time — and the footage could have huge implications for how farmers feed the world in the future. The close-up clip was captured by biologists ...