Stomata – Plant en Zo

Potential for regeneration

For a long time, the question was if all plant cells could develop into embryo’s or that only specific cells can do that. Now a group of international researchers show in their latest article that only specific cells have this possibility to develop into embryo’s.

Counting stomata

Counting stomata Stomata close after they receive a calcium current. How quickly, that is dependent on the trigger of this current. But how the stomata distinguishes those calcium signals was up till now unknown. A recently in Current Biology published study shows how stomata differentiate between the different signals. By using a light activated calciumContinue reading “Counting stomata”

A brake on stomata

A brake on stomata Plant adapt their growth to their environment. A leaf, for example, growing under higher CO2 concentrations has fewer stomata. Swedish researchers show in Plant, Cell & Environment how plants are regulating this. The researchers started their research with the question how the environment influenced leaf growth. Using a plant without CDK8,Continue reading “A brake on stomata”

Pattern

Pattern The stomata in the leaf of a plant are more or less equally distributed. They are forming a pattern. But not at the moment of germination, then there are no stomata. Afterwards they are formed supper quickly. Researchers from America now discovered that already during embryo development this stomata pattern is being formed. TheContinue reading “Pattern”