Proper irrigation is very important for plant health. Too much or too little can both be damaging to plants. I’ll begin with a description of a process called evapotranspiration. This process combines ...

IN plant physiology potometry is still frequently considered a suitable method for measuring plant transpiration provided that the plant organs are cut under certain precautions, namely, under very ...

A new study shows that machine-learning models can accurately predict daily crop transpiration using direct plant measurements and environmental data. By training models on seven years of ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical forest, home to unmatched biodiversity and one of the planet’s longest rivers. Besides the Amazon River, the Amazon rainforest also features “flying rivers:” ...

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As temperatures rise in July and August, transpiration from plants might add to the humidity. One plant that gets more blame than others is corn, said Dan Quinn, assistant professor of agronomy and ...

Virginia’s redistricting referendum is once again in limbo after a Tazewell County Circuit Court judge ruled the measure illegal on Wednesday. Virginia lawmakers in Richmond for special session as ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Water mostly enters a tree through the roots by osmosis and any dissolved ...

Evapotranspiration is a scientific measurement representing the combined sum of evaporation from the soil (or water) surface to the atmosphere and transpiration from plants, where liquid water inside ...

SCIENTISTS AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY have created a "synthetic tree" microfluidic device that mimics transpiration, the process by which a plant pulls water through its roots and up to its leaves. In ...