A new study reveals how microplastics in the air enter plant leaves, potentially harming crops and eventually reaching humans ...

Stomata are pores on the leaf surface that control gas exchange between leaves and the atmosphere. Stomata differ in shape, size, and number among and ...

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – and how it may change in future climates.

Under the right conditions, duckweed essentially farms itself. Wastewater, ponds, puddles, swamps—you name it. If there's ...

Scientists have released new and more accurate genome sequences for five species of duckweed. Their research reveals the specific genes responsible for some of the plant's most useful traits, allowing ...

The trees exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen with the atmosphere through little “mouths” in their leaves and tiny “windows” ...

Climate change has brought the extreme, erratic and unseasonal weather that’s now damaging and even killing our plants.  So we need to ...

TIANJIN, April 10 (Xinhua) -- A joint study led by Chinese scientists has demonstrated that plant leaves can absorb and accumulate airborne microplastics, revealing a direct pathway for these ...

It just requires a little more effort to appreciate. One such behaviour is the dynamic opening and closing of millions of tiny mouths (called stomata) located on each leaf, through which plants ...

Particles in the air can enter leaves through various pathways, such as through structures on the leaf surface called the stomata and through the cuticle 5. Stomata are small openings made of ...

A multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the Yale School of the Environment developed a new laser-based method for observing how plants adjust the pressure within their cells in response to the ...