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 ...

THE usual method of measuring rate of water uptake by seeds is to weigh samples after different periods of imbibition. This method is not free from errors as the seeds have to be freed from adherent ...

The object of the research was to get a general idea of the differences in transpiration produced by alternate periods of diffused light and darkness. The experiments were made on the laurel (Prunus ...

Abstract: This paper presents a leaf sensor which was designed for stomatal transpiration detection. The sensor consists of a thermocouple, a humidity sensor and a programmed microcontroller. The ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interface Sciences, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China ...