Annals of Botany, Vol. 114, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: Functional-Structural Plant Modelling (September 2014), pp. 677-688 (12 pages) • Background and Aims Maximizing photosynthesis at the canopy level is ...
MANY reports 1–5 indicate that plants in a closed system will reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air to a minimum value between 50 and 100 p.p.m. Gabrielsen 2 postulates “there exists a ...
Boosting food production with limited water availability is of great importance to humanity. Our current water usage is already unsustainable. The fact that plant leaves lose water through ...
WHEN carbon dioxide is assimilated by illuminated green leaves it diffuses as a gas into the leaves from the leaf boundary layer, through the stomatal pores and intercellular spaces; it then dissolves ...