15 years of experiments have overturned a major assumption about how thirsty plants actually are

  • Written by: Lucas Cernusak, Associate Professor, Plant Physiology, James Cook University
15 years of experiments have overturned a major assumption about how thirsty plants actually areHasan Almasi / Unsplash

Have you ever wondered just how much water plants need to grow, or indeed why they need it? Plants lose a lot of water when they take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, so they need up to 300 grams of water to make each gram of dry plant matter.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. In a new paper published in Nature...

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