Trees generally uptake carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Why does mangrove trees uptake oxygen through their roots?
Yes, pneumatophores are negatively geotropic roots meant for respiration in mangrove plants. They are also known as breathing roots.
Article Gas exchange and oxygen concentration in pneumatophores and ...
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https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_about_mangrove_trees_physiology_allow_them_to_grow_in_saline_brackish_water
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Dear Suresh Sundaram,
Please have a look at this useful ResearchGate link for the answer to your query.
Article Mangrove root: adaptations and ecological importance
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Dear Suresh,
Trees generally take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen during photosynthesis, but in addition, they respire. For respiration, oxygen is used and plants not only synthesize their foods they break them down during respiration with carbon dioxide given out as waste. All living things respire, remember.
In a swamp, the soil is waterlogged with low oxygen content, such plants, not only mangroves, adapted breathing roots to cope with respiration.
Cheers.
Obianuju P. Umeji
Plants usually take up oxygen through their roots and release CO2. Some plants develop aerenchyma to transport oxygen from the atmosphere to their roots. Mangroves are known to have extensive aerenchyma for this purpose. You will find an extensive literature on this. Just put aerenchyma and mangroves into google scholar or another search engine.
Cheers,
Freeman J Cook
Article Inventorying, Mapping and Monitoring of Mangroves towards Su...
Dear Suresh,
This is a common phenomenon in plants for carrying out their respiratory requirement and survival. Especially, mangroves take up oxygen like other anaerobic plants for aerobic respiration and also other functions deep in the rhizospheric zone.
Article Mangrove root: adaptations and ecological importance
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