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Plants float because of the presents of air spaces between the plant cells. Air is more buoyant than the surrounding water, predominantly causing the biological mass of cells containing the air to float on the water’s surface rather than sink.
Plant material will generally float in water. This is because leaves have air in the spaces between cells, which helps them collect CO 2 gas from their environment to use in photosynthesis. When you apply a gentle vacuum to the leaf disks in solution, this air is forced out and replaced with solution, causing the leaves to sink.
In this fun plant biology activity, you will use a floating leaf disk experiment to measure how quickly plants can make oxygen from photosynthesis.
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How do plants convert light energy into chemical energy? What happens during the floating leaf disk assay? What environmental factors do you think affect the rate of photosynthesis?
Jul 11, 2023 · Which product of photosynthesis will accumulate in the spongy mesophyll and cause the leaf disks to float? For photosynthesis to occur in the leaf disks that have had the air sucked out, you will need to provide the leaf disks with light and a good source of CO 2 dissolved in water.
Apr 24, 2015 · When PAR is limited, plants produce less biomass and do not form emergent leaves. Under limited CO 2 conditions, plants use HCO 3-for photosynthesis (when available), which is less efficient and causes lower growth rates, slower formation of emergent leaves and reduced buoyancy.
Jul 11, 2023 · The measurement tool that can be used to observe these counteracting processes is the floating (or sinking) of the plant disks. In other words, the buoyancy of the leaf disks is actually an indirect measurement of the net rate of photosynthesis occurring in the leaf tissue.
