The design and function of leaf venation are important to plant performance, with key
implications for the distribution and productivity of ecosystems, and applications in …

Leaves are extraordinarily variable in form, longevity, venation architecture, and capacity for
photosynthetic gas exchange. Much of this diversity is linked with water transport capacity …

Stomatal pores are microscopic structures on the epidermis of leaves formed by 2
specialized guard cells that control the exchange of water vapor and CO2 between plants …

Leaf veins are almost ubiquitous across the range of terrestrial plant diversity, yet their
influence on leaf photosynthetic performance remains uncertain. We show here that specific …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

Leaf size and venation show remarkable diversity across dicotyledons, and are key
determinants of plant adaptation in ecosystems past and present. Here we present global …

Increased atmospheric CO2-concentration is widely being considered as the main driving
factor that causes the phenomenon of global warming. This paper attempts to shed more …

Geological sites of exceptional fossil preservation are becoming a focus of research on root
evolution because they retain edaphic and ecological context, and the remains of plant soft …

C4 photosynthesis has evolved more than 60 times as a carbon-concentrating mechanism
to augment the ancestral C3 photosynthetic pathway. The rate and the efficiency of …

During the mid-Palaeozoic, vascular land plants (ie, tracheophytes) underwent a great
radiation that triggered the development of the land biosphere–the so-called Silurian …