Sentences with phrase «block water transport»
he could block water transport by using reducing agents, he could restore it, he could turn off and on.
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Jansen says drought stress causes bubbles of gas to be brought into plants» water transport tubes, which blocks water from reaching leaves and in turn halts the food - creating process of photosynthesis.
Drought actually puts the trees» water transport systems under a huge amount of tension, he says, causing air bubbles to leak in, which damages or blocks those pipes.
They say the size of the pores in sapwood — which contains xylem tissue evolved to transport sap up the length of a tree — also allows water through while blocking most types of bacteria.
For example, freezing and thawing creates air bubbles in plants» internal water transport systems, which can block the flow of water from the roots to the leaves killing the plant.
Life on this planet depends on building blocks of complex carbon molecules and the transport medium of liquid water.
Imagine blocks upon blocks of crushed and leaning buildings; boats washed up on sand covered streets; homes lifted off their foundations and transported yards down the road; basements filled with water, sometimes rising up past the first floor; several missing persons and over 100,000 residents without electricity as winter marches in.