Re: Transpiration, oxygen...

From: Paul Burkhardt (burkhard@aries.scs.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 22 1997 - 08:36:27 PDT

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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 10:36:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paul Burkhardt <burkhard@aries.scs.uiuc.edu>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re: Transpiration, oxygen...

Hi Perry,

> Paul Burkhardt wrote:
>
> > I believe that all plants do better with some "darkness", since that is
> > what they experience naturally. Not only does it give the plant a resting
> > period, but also their respiration reverses at night, producing oxygen
> > rather than carbon dioxide.
>
> Ooops. I thought that plants transpire oxygen during the _day_ when
> they get light, and then at night they transpire carbon dioxide.
>

Ooops on my part. I meant the reverse of what I posted. Thanks for the
correction.

Paul Burkhardt

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