Researchers at IIT Guwahati have discovered that while drought shrinks the vertical water channels in plants, it triggers a structural adaptation that boosts the efficiency of sideways water transport ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A cationic peroxidase, PO-C1 (molecular mass 42 kD, isoelectric point 8.6), which is induced in incompatible interactions between the vascular ...

With our sustained high summer temperatures plants need a continuous source of water. Water moves from the soil into and throughout a plant delivering water and nutrients via a pipe-like vascular ...

Premise of the study: Xylem network connections play an important role in water and nutrient transport in plants, but also facilitate the spread of air embolisms and xylem-dwelling pathogens. This ...

An embolism in a xylem vessel can be as disastrous to plants as one in a blood vessel can be to a human. Water supply to the leaves is cut off, and cells cannot function properly without water. This ...

In a new twist on zombie botany, Harvard University physiologists have found that the pipes in a plant’s water plumbing can regulate the flow speed, despite the disability of being dead. The stack of ...

The xylem is essential for transporting water across the entire plant body. Its development is heavily regulated by VND genes. Scientists report a new experimental system that shows three VND genes ...