Sensors applied to plant leaves warn of water shortage

November 19, 2017 Anne Trafton (MIT News)

Electronic circuits reveal when a plant begins to experience drought conditions Forgot to water that plant on your desk again? It may soon be able to send out an SOS. MIT engineers have created sensors that can be […]

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Rising carbon dioxide is making the world’s plants more water-wise

July 25, 2017 Pep Canadell, Francis Chew, Lei Cheng, Lu Zhang, Yingping Wang , CSIRO Leave a comment

Land plants are absorbing 17% more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere now than 30 years ago, our research published today shows. Equally extraordinarily, our study also shows that the vegetation is hardly using any extra water to do […]

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