The study also finds that the time it takes for water to flow through plants (referred to as transit or turnover time) and return to the atmosphere is among the fastest in the global water cycle ...

Scientists have created the first single cell genomic atlas of mature plants' outer armor layer, called the periderm, and its carbon-capturing phellem cells. The findings will be useful in ...

CSLD enzymes and the microfibrils they produce are also essential for pollen tube development and root hair growth in plants. Pollen tubes are necessary for reproduction, and root hairs absorb ...

The sulfur cycle. As with nitrogen, organic sulfur, contained in the soil and in crop residue, is mineralized by microbes into the inorganic form that plants can use. But other microbes are also ...

we compare an extensive body of literature on phytotoxic effects of this reduced sulfur compound in different ecosystem types, and review the effects of sulfide at multiple ecosystem levels: the ...