Many experiments are conducted in greenhouses or growth chambers in which plants are grown in pots. Considerable research has shown that pots can have a limiting effect on overall plant growth. This ...

Cornell researchers have discovered a previously unknown way plants regulate water that is so fundamental it may change plant ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 23, No. 5 (May, 1936), pp. 355-362 (8 pages) In an attempt to determine whether absorption and movement of water in plants may affect the rate of absorption and ...

Scientists in Italy evaluated the effectiveness of biodegradable mulches for weed control in container-grown giant arborvitae and measured the effects of the mulches on weed control, water consumption ...

Most of the water that enters a plant will exit the leaf into the atmosphere. This provides a continuous stream of water which is known as the transpiration stream. Surface area (not an environmental ...

Plants, just like humans, have circadian clocks that allow them to tell the time. In humans this cellular clockwork influences when we wake and sleep. Plants, just like humans, have circadian clocks ...

The uptake of water can be measured using a potometer. Under normal circumstances, the rate of water uptake gives a measure of the rate of transpiration. A simple potometer is a piece of capillary ...