Throughout evolution, plants have continuously adapted to survive in changing environments. Apart from complex structural ...

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

Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...

Plants adjust cellular pressure to respond to environmental factors. The evolution of stomata played a major role in changing ...

Key regulators of stomata are plant vacuoles ... A special feature of guard cells is that they can increase or decrease their volume, thereby changing their shape. This is the basis for the ...

Gas exchange between the plant and the atmosphere takes place through the stomata, which consist in two bean-shaped guard cells surrounding a pore. (a) Malate and Cl − efflux from the guard ...

When there’s no light available for photosynthesis, the plant closes its stomata so it doesn’t lose water through evaporation. Biologists suspected that the speed at which the guard cells react to ...

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 ...

Stomata, microscopic pores on plant leaves, regulate gas exchange and water loss by opening or closing in response to environmental cues. Guard cells surrounding each stoma regulate this process ...