A root system consists of a complex network ... "Leaf hydraulics and its implications in plant structure and function," in Vascular Transport in Plants, eds. N. M. Holbrook & M.

Through experiments, the film illustrates how biologists study these processes to understand plant ... vascular plants, ferns, fossils, anatomy, adaptation, roots, stems, leaves, vascular system ...

Opening the stomata at the wrong time can waste valuable water and risk a catastrophic drying-out of the plant's vascular system. Almost all land plants control their stomata very precisely in ...

You have electrical signals travelling through the vascular system - so your plant is not simply responding where it’s been stimulated, it can respond at the other end of the plant.