Plants must breathe carbon dioxide to live, but every breath causes them to lose water that they naturally want to conserve.

New research, led by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, suggests that plant respiration is a larger source of carbon emissions than previously thought, and warn that as the world warms, this may ...

A biological process in plants, thought to be useless and even wasteful, has significant benefits and should not be engineered out -- particularly in the face of looming climate change, says a team of ...

Plants and trees may seem pretty passive, but behind the scenes, their cells are working hard to put on a magic show. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how the processes of ...

Oecologia, Vol. 197, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: IN HONOR OF RUSSELL K. MONSON (December 2021), pp. 1003-1015 (13 pages) Soil respiration (Rs) is the second largest carbon (C) flux to the atmosphere and our ...

New research reveals the amount of carbon dioxide released by trees into the atmosphere under a warming climate could be considerably less than currently predicted. Published in Science, the new ...

Researchers have revealed the first atomic structures of the respiratory apparatus that plants use to generate energy. Researchers have revealed the first atomic structures of the respiratory ...