Transpiration efficiency: new insights into an old story

The Process of Transpiration · Plants are constantly taking water in at their roots and losing water via the stomata · Around 99% of the water

Transpiration · Transpiration is the evaporation and movement of water away from the plant's leaves from the inside of the plant · Water moves through the

transpiration As we know, transpiration takes place in tiny pores in the epidermis of leaves called stomata Water evaporates in the leaf cells forming water vapor The air

transpiration The stomata pores are regulated by surrounding guard cells which regulate the rate of transpiration When guard cells become turgid they cause stomata to open