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

Carnivorous pitcher plants attract ants with their sweet but toxic nectar, turning its flowers into a deadly trap.

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Fall growing conditions are ideal for plant growth. Cool evening temperatures slow down plant respiration and therefore the plant builds strength. Now is a wonderful time to be planting and looking ...

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 ...

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 ...

This weather has been crazy as of late. Here in Tennessee, we have bounced between 85 and 25 degrees F in just a few days. Our triticale is well past optimum quality, and it was harvested a couple of ...