A Report On Leaf Sensor

To measure the rates of photosynthesis by measuring the change in CO2 levels in the air that is in the LeafLab chamber.

There are many procedures during this lab and many materials needed for an accurate analysis of data. First, fill a 100 mL graduated cylinder with 50 mL of water. Add 25 germinating peas and determine the amount of water that is displaced. Record this volume of the 25 germinating peas, then remove the peas and put those peas on a paper towel. They will be used for the first respirometer. Next, refill the graduated cylinder with 50 mL of water and add 25 non-germinating peas to it. Add glass beads to the graduated cylinder until the volume is the same to that of germinating peas. Remove the beads and peas and put on a paper towel. They will be used in respirometer 2. Now, the graduated cylinder was filled once again, determine how many glass beads will be require to reach the same volume of the germinating peas. Remove the beads and they will be used in respirometer 3. Then repeat the procedures used above to prepare a second set of germinating peas, dry peas and beads, and beads to be used in respirometers 4,5,and 6, the only difference is the temperature of the water.

6. Describe several adaptations that enable plants to reduce water loss from their leaves. Include both structural and physiological adaptations.

Transpiration is said to be the loss of water vapor through the stomata of the leaves in a plant. Transpiration essentially serves to move water and other nutrients throughout a plant, to cool down plants and humans and to maintain turgor pressure in the cells of plants (sdhydroponics). The transpiration rate in a plant is affected by the wind, light and humidity. temperature and water. The wind serves to determine how dry the air is when transpiration occurs. Light can at times speed up the rate of transpiration in plants. Transpiration tends to occur faster in the light rather than when in the dark. Humidity serves to determine the rate of the diffusion of water in the plant. As

Then he micro-centrifuge tube was placed into the water bath that was filled with 20°C water. 2 cm of the tube was sticking out of the top of the water bath. Then the oxygen sensor was placed, and tightly sealed into the test tubes opening. Then the walls of the water bath were completely covered with aluminum foil. This was to insure no light could reach the leaf.

14. At this point, a vacuum is to be created within the syringe to draw the air out of the tissue of the leaf disks. After this step, the experiment is really quite simple.

Each leaf was measured for its surface area, length-to-width ratio, mass, specific leaf mass, and color. Surface area was measured by a leaf area meter in squared centimeters. Length-to-width ratio was measured by measuring the length (vertically along the bridge of the leaf) and the width (horizontally on the widest part of the leaf) with a ruler in centimeters, and dividing the length by the width. Mass was calculated by a balance in grams. Specific leaf mass (thickness) was measured by dividing the mass by its surface area in grams per squared centimeter. Color was measured by having three reference leaves provided by the instructor, indicating light (L), medium (M), and dark (D) leaves and compared our collected leaves.

Robert Deal from Emory University is studying to learn about plants and their memory of stress. When plants face dry weather, their stomata shrink to reduce water loss. When a similar situation places the plants under stress again, the plant seems to recall this experience and recovers quicker. Robert Deal, who studies genetics and biochemistry, hopes to utilize this trait and pinpoint its gene. If he can locate and activate the genetic material associated with this memory, he believes he can speed up the process and cause plants to have the gene activated at all times, allowing the plants to withstand drier and warmer temperatures.

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This lab deals with the transpiration rates in plants, specifically a tomato plant that was used for this experiment. Transpiration is when water leaves a plant through the stomata as water vapor while the stomata is capturing CO2 for photosynthesis. This experiment used three different scenarios: a tomato plant with a light shining on it, a tomato plant with wind blowing on it from a fan, and lastly a tomato plant with nothing acting on it. The hypothesis is that the rate of transpiration will be fastest with light, faster with wind, and slow with the control. This hypothesis was rejected because the rate of transpiration is as follows with the wind having the fastest rate: with light the rate was 7.60 mm/min, with wind 10.20 mm/min, and control 4.33 mm/min. The cause of the wind having a faster transpiration rate than the light may have been due to the surface area of the leaves on the tomato plants. The surface area of the leaves for the wind experiment is 8,124mm2, and for the light is 7,740mm2.By doing this transpiration experiment it helps one to see what happens in plants daily and understand why it happens.

In this lab the effect of changing the pH of water that leaf disks were submerged into to find the effect on the ET50 time of plants. The hypothesis was that if the pH is closer to a normal water pH than the ET50 time will be the smallest. This lab was conducted to see what different variables change the amount of time needed for photosynthesis to occur(ET50) . This is important because of acid rain being present in the world with climate change and the effect it can have on plants which has large tolls. Previous studies have shown that acid rain and a change in pH can have damaging effects on plants. One study, showed that, acid rain destroyed the chloroplast of soybeans the location of photosynthesis in plants which disrupted photosynthesis

The water shortages in California are causing hardships on the agricultural industry. There isn’t enough fresh water to support both the human population and the natural environment. One way to prevent water shortages would be to improve the irrigation systems the farmers use. Instead of using various types of irrigation systems that waterlog the soil, they should increase the use of a drip-irrigation system.

So farmers are trying to create crop irrigation systems that are managed by moisture, temperature, texture, and nutrient measurements. This soil managing let's farmers check the ground moisture in their fields in many of their locations, instead of having to drive to each location, digging in the ground, and determining whether or not to irrigate. This new technology will help mainly with farmers that own thousands of acres of land. Another technology farmers need to be on the lookout for is advanced precision agriculture. Precision agriculture makes farming very precise and perfect. The only negative part that could come with this new technology is that the technology network can be slow, which can increase the consequences of the how much crop a farmer puts out and the quality of the final crop. Which eventually will affect the farmers life. These new breakthroughs in technology will directly impact everyone's lives and the future of the agricultural world as we know

Weakness and problems within the experiment we tested for could be that the pipet tip used in the experiment were not properly sterilised so there is a high possibility for contamination of the root and shoot. Also, This would not make it difficult to measure but will make the data less

Recording data: Measure the distance between the lamp and the beaker. It should be 70cm at all times because it is a control variable. This cannot be changed because light intensity affects the rate of photosynthesis. If the plant is too close to the lamp, the results would be most affect by light intensity instead of carbon dioxide and the results would not be accurate.