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What does transpiration mean?

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  1. (botany) The loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied by a corresponding uptake from the roots.
  2. (physiology) The process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes.
  3. The passage of gases through fine tubes.
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Then the other way is called transpiration, or water lost primarily from the leaves and stems of the plants.
Guard cell plasticity or, more exactly, plasticity in transpiration is clearly physiological plasticity.
Boundary layer conductance may also be lower with a more open crown, thus further increasing transpiration.
In these stems and leaves with intercalary meristems, the upward transpiration stream clearly bypassed most of the enlarging cells.
Water use efficiency also decreased while the rate of transpiration and stomatal conductance remained unchanged.
Water use or evapotranspiration is composed of two parts, transpiration from the plant and evaporation from the soil surface.

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