Plants—they have mouths, just like us. Unlike us, however, these plant mouths might actually help us feed the growing population in the face of climate change. A new study from the University of ...

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

The work, published in the journal Plant Physiology, describes a new system called “Stomata In-Sight.” The technology ...

What you do is sometimes determined by what your neighbours do. Scientists believe that this extends to stomatal behaviour. Stomata are pores placed at the plant surface that allow gas exchange with ...

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

UIUC's platform, christened Stomata In-Sight, combines laser scanning confocal microscopy, gas exchange instruments and ...