This breakthrough could guide the breeding of smarter crops, plants that know when to open or close their pores, using water ...

For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These ...

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

Scientists have created a new way to watch plants breathe—live and in high definition—while tracking exactly how much carbon ...

UIUC's platform, christened Stomata In-Sight, combines laser scanning confocal microscopy, gas exchange instruments and machine-learning image analysis, to simultaneously observe anatomical ...

An increasing number of researchers are keen to study plant stomata and figure out ways to manipulate them and develop hardier crops.

Plant behaviour may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, who tirelessly feed the entire biosphere (including us), are full of ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new system that allows researchers to observe how ...