Under some circumstances, transpiration of water from leaves may act to cool them and prevent damage from high ambient temperature. In general, however, transpiration is neutral or bad for plants.
It is an unavoidable loss of water as the plant photosynthesizes. To minimize transpiration, movement of gases into or out of a leaf is controlled by the stomata. The stomata are small pores in the leaf epidermis that can be opened or closed.
Stomatal opening is highly regulated by multiple mechanisms so as to minimize transpiration. Transpiration is minimized even under conditions of high ambient temperature. Stomata close at high temperature.
They do not open in order to cool the leaf. Stomata are composed of two guard cells. These cells have walls that are thicker on the inner side than on the outer side. This unequal thickening of the paired guard cells causes the stomata to open when they take up water and close when they lose water.
A diagram of stomata is shown on page of your text. Functions Performed More from this Living System. Regulate Cellular Processes Cells are the basic building blocks of all living systems, so cellular processes dictate how physiological processes occur within those systems.
See More of this Function. See More of this Living System. Guard cells use osmotic pressure to open and close stomata, allowing plants to regulate the amount of water and solutes within them.
This summary was contributed by Allison Miller. Journal article Pallas Jr. Mechanisms of guard cell action. The Quarterly Review of Biology. JE embedly preview toggle icon Reference toggle icon. Other Biological Strategies. Alkaloid molecules protect plants from bacterial infections.
Term Definition toggle icon. In contrast, scanning microscopy SEM offers high resolution images of stomata but requires expensive equipment and is not suitable for collecting large numbers of probes Lawson et al. As long as a proper technique that is not controversial in regards to its influence on stomatal response is not applied, all aperture measurements will be under discussion. Another crucial problem is that most reports describe experiments with detached leaves, which may not reflect the response of intact plants under drought conditions Morgan et al.
Franks and Farquhar addressed the problem of data integration in stomatal research. They pointed out the lack of the integration of mechanical and quantitative physical information about guard cells and adjacent cells in model of stomatal function.
Such integration of data should allow gas-exchange regulation to be better described and predicted. As long as guard cells are considered as a model without their surroundings, the results obtained may not be relevant. Another problem noted by Franks and Farquhar is that research on the impact of various environmental factors on the stomatal regulation and stomatal density should be performed on and compared among several species, not only one.
This would allow a full picture of a broad morphological and evolutionary spectrum of possibilities of stomata development, density, and movement regulation in response to stresses to be obtained. Summarizing, there are still many questions about the techniques used for evaluating the stomatal response to stress. Further development of proper methods will bring us closer to a fuller and more relevant understanding of stomatal action.
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