Tag: botany

Transpiration is the process by which moisture is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves, where it changes to vapor and is released to the atmosphere. Transpiration is essentially evaporation of water from plant leaves. Translocation is not involved in food translocation and growth and curvature of plants.

Transpiration is the process by which moisture or water is carried through plants from roots to small pores on the underside of leaves, where it changes to vapor and is released to the atmosphere. Transpiration is essentially evaporation of water from plant leaves. Transfusion and translocation do not involve the loss of water. 

Submerged hydrophytes do not show transpiration, because they are submerged in water. Fungi do not come under plants. Algae do not have leaves and stomatal pores. So, they also do not show transpiration.

Transpiration is loss of water in vapor form, from living plant cells thus it is a physiological process while evaporation is loss of water from any free surface in vapor form, thus it is a physical process. 

Transpiration results in loss of water in vapour form. Water vapours are a prominent green house gas, responsible for maintenance of temperature on earth.

Water is essential for plants, it absorbs water from the soil through roots. However, plants absorbs much water, but only a small amount of water is used for their growth and metabolism. Persisting 97 - 99.5% of absorbed water is lost by transpiration. Transpiration is the process of elimination water in the form of water vapour from the aerial parts such as leaves, flowers and stem.

Water is transient in plants. Less than 1 per cent of the water reaching the leaves is used in photosynthesis and plant growth. Most of it is lost through the stomata in the leaves. This water loss in vapour form is known as transpiration.

Anti-transpirants are compounds applied to the leaves of plants to reduce transpiration. They are used to preserve and protect plants from drying out too quickly. They are also used to protect leaves from the salt burn and fungal diseases. Anti-transpirants reduce the stomatal opening and increase the leaf resistance to water vapour diffusion without affecting carbon dioxide uptake.

Transpiration is a process by which the moisture is carried through plants from the roots to the stomata where it is converted into vapour and is released out to the atmosphere that is the evaporation of water from plant leaves. Transpiration along with evaporation of moisture from land produced two-third of atmospheric moisture.

The continuous evaporation of water (or transpiration) from the cells of a leaf crates a kind of suction which pulls up water through the xylem vessles. Thus, transpiration helps in the upward movement of water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the leaves through the stem.