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Ecophysiology of Photosynthesis pp 205–229Cite as

As to the Mode of Action of the Guard Cells in Dry Air

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The first observation that stomata tend to close in dry air seems to have been made by one whose name is not usually found in reviews of stomatal physiology. Joseph Banks (1805) wrote that the pores in the stems of wheat, “which exist also on the leaves and glumes”, are shut in dry weather and open in wet. The context is an essay on the cause of mildew in wheat, in which Banks supposes that the infection takes place through the stomata. He presumed the pores are “a provision intended no doubt to compensate, in some measure, the want of locomotion in vegetables” and remarked that “A plant cannot when thirsty go to the brook and drink: but it can open innumerable orifices for the reception of every degree of moisture, which either falls in the shape of rain or dew, or is separated from the mass of water always held in solution in the atmosphere….”

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    Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  2. Department of Range Science and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 84322-5230, USA

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Cowan, I.R. (1995). As to the Mode of Action of the Guard Cells in Dry Air. In: Schulze, ED., Caldwell, M.M. (eds) Ecophysiology of Photosynthesis. Springer Study Edition, vol 100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79354-7_10

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