Jan 25, 2021
How to Estimate or Measure the Water Status of Plants in the Field?
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Many different interacting factors affecting supply (soil moisture), demand (weather) or plant factors (leaf area, canopy display) that combine to affect water stress in plants. Since there are so many indirect and interacting factors involved, the plant integrates all of them. So, measuring any one is inadequate. So how best to estimate or measure it? […]
Jan 11, 2021
Letter from FloraPulse founder Dr. Alan Lakso to plant researchers
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We wanted to let you know that after more than a decade of research at Cornell then development into a practical tool by our FloraPulse Co., the FloraPulse microtensiometer is now commercially available (see https://www.florapulse.com/ ). It is a microchip version of the classic tensiometer principle designed to be embedded in trunks or large branches […]