A new leaf imaging system lets scientists watch plant stomata control water loss and carbon uptake in real time.

Plants know how to do a neat trick. Through photosynthesis, they use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food, belching out the oxygen that we breathe as a byproduct. This evolutionary innovation is ...

Salmonella bacteria can trick plants into opening pores (stomata) in their leaves so that the bacteria can get inside, making them difficult to remove. Professor Maeli Melotto, Department of Plant ...

New research on how microscopic leaf pores respond to sunlight reveals some of the first universal relationships between plants and climate. Understanding these relationships could vastly improve ...

Engineered plants conserve 25 percent more water by only partially opening their mouth-like stomata, allowing less water to escape through transpiration while carbon dioxide enters the plant to fuel ...

Researchers at the University’s Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology have developed a new way of observing plant ...

How do plants breathe through stomata? Key regulators of stomata are plant vacuoles, fluid-filled organelles bound by a single membrane called the tonoplast. Plant vacuoles are fluid-filled organelles ...

Scientists have synthesized a new bioactive small molecule that has the ability to increase stomata numbers on flowering plants without stunting their growth. The team's new discovery could help ...

Drug delivery has long been a core field of medical research. Organic and inorganic-based nanoparticles such as liposomes, micelles, and dendrimers have been developed to deliver drugs precisely to ...