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tiny blossoms | may 2022

wild roses | may 2022

Sage 🌱🌿

I started this like 8 months ago and I was still trying to figure out my AP art concentration. (It didn’t make the final cut of pieces lol)

How do plants breathe?

These tiny “mouths” in the picture are stomata, the pores on plants’ leaves that allow plants to “breathe”. Plants need to take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Stomata facilitate gas exchange in photosynthesis by letting these gasses in and out of the plant tissue. Plants are able to open and close their stomata, which is important since water vapour also escapes via the stomata. Closed stomata help prevent the plant from drying out.

These images are from my undergraduate research project which focused on the molecular signals controlling stomata opening and closing. These picture are the epidermis of Arabidopsis thaliana peeled off and seen under a light microscope.

my egg has a rosy disposition