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Article: Reports from University of Western Australia highlight recent research in environmental research.
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- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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"In some plants, stomata are exclusively located in epidermal depressions called crypts. It has been argued that crypts function to reduce transpiration; however, the occurrence of crypts in species from both arid and wet environments suggests that crypts may play another role," scientists writing in the journal Plant Cell and Environment report.
"The genus Banksia was chosen to examine quantitative relationships between crypt morphology and leaf structural and physiological traits to gain insight into the functional significance of crypts. Crypt resistance to water vapour and CO2 diffusion was calculated by treating crypts as an additional boundary layer ...
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