Sap is clever? Sap ascent for undergraduates investigated with an artificial tree

Water is the essential component in living and its role is particularly important in plants. In fact, the crucial photosynthesis process involves a huge loss of sap by transpiration (around 99% from the total amount recovered from the soil through the plant roots) from the stomas on the leaves. Ther...

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Autores: González-Cámara, Sergio, Sanz Alférez, Soledad, Orús Orús, María Isabel, Ares Fernández, José Ramón
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
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Palavra-chave:Artificial tree
Sap ascent
Física
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spelling Sap is clever? Sap ascent for undergraduates investigated with an artificial treeGonzález-Cámara, SergioSanz Alférez, SoledadOrús Orús, María IsabelAres Fernández, José RamónArtificial treeSap ascentFísicaWater is the essential component in living and its role is particularly important in plants. In fact, the crucial photosynthesis process involves a huge loss of sap by transpiration (around 99% from the total amount recovered from the soil through the plant roots) from the stomas on the leaves. Therefore, a question arises: How could trees raise the sap to heights up to 100 m? In this article we present a simple experimental setup that provides a direct visualization and quantification of the water ascent process against gravity. Moreover, the artificial tree offers analogies with "real" ones that will help undergraduate science students from different areas to investigate the influence of environmental and morphological parameters on the variety of physics phenomena underlying the ascension mechanismAmerican Institute of PhysicsDepartamento de Física AplicadaFacultad de Ciencias20212021-04-30research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/700133https://dx.doi.org/10.1119/10.0004887reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7001332026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Sap is clever? Sap ascent for undergraduates investigated with an artificial tree
title Sap is clever? Sap ascent for undergraduates investigated with an artificial tree
spellingShingle Sap is clever? Sap ascent for undergraduates investigated with an artificial tree
González-Cámara, Sergio
Artificial tree
Sap ascent
Física
title_short Sap is clever? Sap ascent for undergraduates investigated with an artificial tree
title_full Sap is clever? Sap ascent for undergraduates investigated with an artificial tree
title_fullStr Sap is clever? Sap ascent for undergraduates investigated with an artificial tree
title_full_unstemmed Sap is clever? Sap ascent for undergraduates investigated with an artificial tree
title_sort Sap is clever? Sap ascent for undergraduates investigated with an artificial tree
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv González-Cámara, Sergio
Sanz Alférez, Soledad
Orús Orús, María Isabel
Ares Fernández, José Ramón
author González-Cámara, Sergio
author_facet González-Cámara, Sergio
Sanz Alférez, Soledad
Orús Orús, María Isabel
Ares Fernández, José Ramón
author_role author
author2 Sanz Alférez, Soledad
Orús Orús, María Isabel
Ares Fernández, José Ramón
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Física Aplicada
Facultad de Ciencias
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Artificial tree
Sap ascent
Física
topic Artificial tree
Sap ascent
Física
description Water is the essential component in living and its role is particularly important in plants. In fact, the crucial photosynthesis process involves a huge loss of sap by transpiration (around 99% from the total amount recovered from the soil through the plant roots) from the stomas on the leaves. Therefore, a question arises: How could trees raise the sap to heights up to 100 m? In this article we present a simple experimental setup that provides a direct visualization and quantification of the water ascent process against gravity. Moreover, the artificial tree offers analogies with "real" ones that will help undergraduate science students from different areas to investigate the influence of environmental and morphological parameters on the variety of physics phenomena underlying the ascension mechanism
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