We took these designs from nature and optimized them,” said Ph.D. candidate Eric Chadwick at the University of Toronto. His ...

Everything about a plant’s life is affected by its leaves. These powerhouses are the sugar factories of botany! Leaves have amazing mechanisms for sustaining the plant’s life, as well as their vital ...

The researchers observed abnormal cell growth, disorganized stomata, and severe changes to internal leaf layers—changes that reduce the tree's ability to breathe and photosynthesize effectively.

When fluid pressure increases inside the stomata’s guard cells, they swell up to open the ... So next time you look upon a leaf, consider the frantic pace of dynamic calculation and adjustment ...

Stomata are crucial in land plant productivity and survival. In general, with lower irradiance, stomatal and epidermal cell frequency per unit leaf area decreases, whereas guard-cell length or width ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Bioengineers have harnessed the lotus effect to develop a system for culturing cancer cell clusters that can shed ... culturing surface mimics the lotus leaf surface structure, providing a highly ...

The lengths, polar and equatorial diameters of the stomatal guard cells and the stomatal density (number of stomata per mm 2 of leaf surface) were measured in the paradermal sections. Quantitative ...

With a leaf-like shape, transpiration feature, and the ability to use extra thermal energy, the system captures more sunlight than the average solar cell and could drastically increase electrical ...