An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

How does water move through plants to get to the top of tall trees? Here we describe the pathways and mechanisms driving water uptake and transport through plants, and causes of flow disruption.

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Most of the water that enters a plant will exit the leaf into the atmosphere. This provides a continuous stream of water which is known as the transpiration stream. Surface area (not an ...