ETHYL alcohol was used as an auxiliary solvent in the preparation of auxin solutions for a series of transpiration experiments with plants in water culture when the roots were supplied with different ...

As temperatures rise in July and August, transpiration from plants might add to the humidity. One plant that gets more blame than others is corn, said Dan Quinn, assistant professor of agronomy and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Two experiments were conducted to determine the transpiration rates of tropical and temperate grasses under a range of environmental ...

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 environmental ...

The uptake of water can be measured using a potometer. Under normal circumstances, the rate of water uptake gives a measure of the rate of transpiration. A simple potometer is a piece of capillary ...

Aluminum shell used for transpiration experiments, and designed to prevent evaporation from the pot and the soil. The form was.developed by William Francis Ganong (1864-1941), professor of botany at ...