Q. Can tomato plants absorb water through their leaves on humid days? Also on cool and hot days, how often do you need to water with our heavy clay soil? – C.W., Crown Point, Ind. A. While plants can ...

Plants are able to modify their root hydraulics to maintain water status and strategically use soil water, according to a new ...

During rare desert rainfalls, cacti waste no time sopping up and storing a storm's precious precipitation. Inspired by this natural phenomenon, scientists report that they have developed a material ...

Various plant and environmental factors influence the hydraulic properties for roots, which were examined using negative hydrostatic pressures applied to the proximal ends of individual excised roots ...

Plants may have no muscles, but they can grow upwards against the strain of gravity and their roots can even shift soil and rocks – because their cells can absorb water to form strong structures. Now ...