The significance of discontinuous gas-exchange cycles (DGC) in reducing respiratory water loss (RWL) in insects is contentious. Results from single-species studies are equivocal in their support of the classic 'hygric hypothesis' for the evolution of DGC, whereas comparative analyses generally support a link between DGC and water balance. In this study, we investigated DGC prevalence and charac...

Since Cline's report (5) of a very slow equilibration in the leaves of tritiated water absorbed by the roots of bean plants, no resolution has been made between his expressed alternative views that this was due A, to failure of tissue water to exchange with the incoming tritium-labeled water, or B, to a large isotope effect. During the preparation of the present manuscript Vartapetyan and Kursa...

recognition of rangeland species with the maximum efficiency and the minimum water usage is very important, since major parts of rangelands in iran are located in arid and semiarid climate. in addition, the rangeland improvement and management on the basis of transpiration rate of rangeland species in different climatic conditions has great importance. the goal of this research is comparison an...

to evaluate the anti-transpiration effect on yield and yield components of corn late yield 704 under drought stress experiment split factorial randomized complete block design with three replications in spring 2012 at the research station, kermanshah. and paclobutrazol treatments include salicylic acid, which is taking on two levels. based on the values determined in the following order foliar ...

Transpiration is generally assumed to be insignificant at night when stomata close in response to the lack of photosynthetically active radiation. However, there is increasing evidence that the stomata of some species remain open at night, which would allow for nighttime transpiration if there were a sufficient environmental driving force. We examined nighttime water use in co-occurring species...

The rate of absorption of water by roots of transpiring plants is in general closely dependent upon the rate of transpiration, and a change in the rate of transpiration is soon followed by a corresponding change in the rate of absorption (3). Since the rate of absorption lags behind and apparently is dependent on the rate of transpiration it is usually considered that under conditions such that...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of relative humidity, light management, minimum ventilation rates, CO2 enrichment and canopy size on water consumption in three different greenhouse systems (conventional, open heat pump, and confined heat pump) in winter, spring, and summer months. Using different relative humidity set points resulted in almost the same relative humidity ...

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A closed system was designed for concomitant determination of net CO(2) uptake, transpiration, and foliar nitrogen (N) loss in soybeans (Glycine max [L.] Merr.). The CO(2) uptake was monitored by infrared analysis of system air removed periodically in aliquots. Leaf vapors were trapped in calibrated tubes at Dry Ice temperature, and transpiration rate was determined from the quantity of condens...