Cellulose acetate replicas were made from silicone rubber impressions of the abaxial surfaces of perennial ryegrass leaves. Apertures between 1 ÎĽ and 4 ÎĽ (mean 2 ÎĽ) were measured in replicas from ...
Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 4, No. 11 (June 1953), pp. 283-295 (13 pages) A method is described of following the behaviour of stomata by utilizing a diffusion phenomenon, the Dufour effect.
A team of researchers led by Drs. Momoko Takagi and Yosuke Toda (concurrently affiliated with phytometrics co. ltd.) at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM) at Nagoya University, ...
Tsukuba, Japan—Plant diseases cause major agricultural losses annually, but the tools used to fight them can create more problems than they solve. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered a new ...
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 ...