Better Farming Series 02 - The Plant: the Stem; the Buds; the Leaves (FAO - INADES, 1976, 30 p.): The leaves: What are leaves for?: The plant transpires.

Better Farming Series 02 - The Plant: the Stem; the Buds; the Leaves (FAO - INADES, 1976, 30 p.)

The leaves

What are leaves for?

		(introduction...)
		How the leaf changes raw sap into elaborated sap
		Organic matter in the plant
		The plant breathes.
		The plant transpires.

When it is hot, a man sweats, he transpires.
A plant also transpires.
The water in the sap evaporates, the leaf gets dry.
The plant is thirsty.