Hello everyone! How are you going through the heat wave? You sure have increased your fluid intake, right? And it is that the human body, being exposed to such high temperatures, expels water at a higher speed through the pores of the skin. Thus, when the wind passes, it manages to stay cool, or at least it tries. This process is known as Breathable gripsand it is something that also occurs in plant beings.
If you are curious about how plants expel waterRead on to learn more about this incredible phenomenon.
To get water, we get a bottle or a glass, but the plants they absorb it through the roots. The root system can extend horizontally, staying very close to the surface, or it can drill down into the soil depending on where there is moisture. Once they have found water, the water is immediately sent to the stems and leaves in order to carry out photosynthesis and ensure good plant growth. All thanks to xylem and phloem.
But of course, what function do these strangely named parts have? It is much simpler than it seems. The xylem is a woody tissue found inside the stem, and is the responsible for transporting water, mineral salts and other nutrients essential in an upward direction to all parts of the plant; the phloem, on the other hand, transports the brewed sapwhich is composed of organic and inorganic nutrients produced by photosynthetic parts -that is, those parts of plant beings where there is presence of chlorophyll- in a downward direction towards the roots.
To live you have to breathe, and in the process it is inevitable to lose water. Plants “eliminate” in the form of water vapor all that which they do not need, expelling it through the pores (or stomata), located on the underside of the leaves, as they open.
Do the following experiment with your family to make sure your plant breathes: wrap the leaves in a clear plastic bag. You will see that, when a short period of time passes, there are droplets of water inside, an unequivocal sign that it is alive, and that therefore it is breathing.
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