PREVIOUS work in inorganic solute movement in plants has suggested that the minerals follow a specific polar path from the roots which absorb them to the leaves in which they are deposited 1,2.

Chapman University researchers found that Earth’s plants store 786 km³ of water, with water cycling through them in just 5–18 days—much faster than other water cycle processes. This rapid transit, ...

The study provides the first experimental demonstration of the potential impacts of climate change on water movement through ... and then tracked its path through the plants and the soil.

Darwin developed a way of recording the movements of individual parts of plants as they grew and rotated through space. Darwin's observations became the basis of how we now understand the physiology ...

Leather argues that water moves upwards from a limited depth only. … The results are equally well explained on the supposition that the upward movement takes place at all depths, since the ...

Pablo Sanchez-Martinez from the University of Edinburgh and Leander Anderegg from the University of California Santa Barbara are co-authors of the study. The role of plants in water movement Plants ...

This input together with plant material deposited in surface soils provides organic substrates that sustain a large variety of soil organisms. The infiltration of water into soils and movement of ...