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Plant Pathology Glossary
... such as leaves, stems and fruit. The cuticle is water-repellent and aids the plant in conserving water by reducing the amount of water vapour lost to the air from plant surfaces, particularly the ... into a protein. Translocation the long-distance transport of water, nutrients, chemicals, or food materials within a plant. Transpiration the loss of water vapour from leaf surfaces and other parts of the ...
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Physiology Of Drought In Stressed Plants
... as vapour from the leaves. During the day, water is almost always evaporating out of leaves into the surrounding air. This process is called transpiration. During transpiration, water vapour passes out of leaves through tiny holes called stomates. On a hot, dry, windy day, water loss to transpiration can be quite high ...
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Australian Fuchsia Society
... the action of sunlight striking the leaf of a plant, causes water, carbon dioxide and chlorophyll - when they are present within the ... generated and these cause - by a process akin to electrolysis - the water to break down into the elements of hydrogen and oxygen. ... the process the glucose is oxidised and is turned back into water vapour and carbon dioxide, both are then respired by the plant via ...
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Photosynthesis Directory
... methane, carbon dioxide, and water vapour. Any gaseous oxygen had been used up in the combustion (or oxidation) of materials when the Earth was very hot. The cooling water collected in pools, ... emitted. This showed that the oxygen for photosynthesis was derived from the water. Light energy entering the plant splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen: H2O + light energy ---> ½ O2 + 2H+ + ...
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Nehemia Aharoni
... , S., Horev, B. and Grinberg, S. (2000). The use of liner packaging to prevent condensed water in combination with auxin and sportak to preserve quality of eggplants in sea shipment. Gan ... -62. Fallik, E., Chalupowicz, D., Aharon, Z. and Aharoni, N. (2002). Modified atmosphere in a water vapour-permeable film maintains snap bean quality after harvest. Folia Hortic. 14: 85-94. Rodov, V ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Anemone Pulsatilla - Herb Profile and Information
... one year. ---Constituents---The fresh plant yields by distillation with water an acrid, oily principle, with a burning, peppery taste, Oil of ... cantharides, in overdoses causing violent gastro-enteritis. It is volatile in water vapour and is then irritative to the eyes and mouth. The ... . Doses of 2 to 3 drops in a spoonful of water will allay the spasmodic cough of asthma, whooping-cough and ...
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Get Growing Gardening Tips 109- Effects of Wind
... , wind greatly increase the speed at which the clothes dry. With plants the loss of water vapour through the process of transpiration is much more rapid in windy conditions than when the ... of evaporation. A combination of frost and wind in conifers increases transpiration. They cannot obtain water from the soil due to the low temperatures, and may even die as a result ...
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Get Growing -Tips on planning a Garden - Devonian Botanic Garden
... like ‘moist feet’!!! Soil and moisture Where water drains away normally, the soil will hold water for about a week in the summer ... a network of minute channels through which water can move upwards easily to replenish water lost from the surface through evaporation. This ... with which the clothes dry. With plants the loss of water vapour through the process of transpiration is much more rapid in ...
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NERC - Directed research programmes
... InfluenceS on the Earth's climate (APPRAISE) Core-Strategic Measurements for Atmospheric Science (COSMAS) Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate (CWVC) Depleted Uranium e-Science Environmental Factors in the Chronology of Human Evolution ...
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NERC - Reducing uncertainties
... in recent years, but clouds remain one of the biggest uncertainties in climate change research. Water vapour A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, which itself acts as a greenhouse gas, generating ... this effect, the predicted warming would be halved. Scientists are still uncertain how to represent water vapour in climate models. Ice and snow Melting sea-ice and reduced snow cover in polar ...
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