How do Plants Provide Oxygen?

 







When plants breathe, humans do too. Indeed, plants and trees don't produce all the oxygen in our atmosphere. Also, plants help with providing oxygen mainly through photosynthesis. The plants carry out to procreate the glucose that they need for nutrition and to produce oxygen. When humans breathe, they inhale oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Plants do the exact opposite. 

Plants and trees capture carbon dioxide from the air. Trees and plants have an unusual ability to turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen. A mature tree can provide enough oxygen for about eighteen people. 

We get rid of carbon dioxide because plants cleanse the air of polluting gases like ammonia and ozone. And due to environmental pollution, the presence of trees and plants is becoming important; because they fight global warming. 

How Do Plants Breathe at Night?

Plants absorb oxygen at night and release carbon dioxide to keep the continuity of the metabolism process. Also, it worth noting that during the day, plants release around ten times the amount of oxygen they spend during the night, and this means that they produce more oxygen than they use. 

Breath happens in all living cells in plants at night, as it happens in leaves and roots. The inhalation process requires oxygen, and it could be a problem for taproot that watered exceedingly or in soil with poor drainage. 

Therefore, If someone submerged the roots for a long time, this prevents them from consuming oxygen and converting glucose to maintain metabolic processes that kill root tissues and damages trees. 

Oxygen

Oxygen is a widespread chemical element, and it is the second most comprehensive element on Earth, the third most extensive element in the universe, and oxygen in the form of a colorless and odorless gas. It is significant, as it is essential for human, animal, and plant breath. 

Its deficiency for more than several minutes leads to loss of consciousness and death.On the other hand, air contains a big scale of oxygen in some conditions, can have a deadly effect, and air enriched with oxygen used to make products such as steel and methanol, and liquid oxygen used to propel rockets. 

Plants That Release Oxygen at Night

  • Aloe Vera: Aloe Vera comes on top of plants that help improve the air. And increasing the discharge of oxygen at night makes it more like an oxygen factory.
  • Snake plant: It is marking to absorbing carbon dioxide in large quantities and secreting oxygen handsomely at night, which helps you to breathe in a healthy environment during sleep.
  • Orchid flower: Orchids are known for their unique and beautiful shape, by the fact that they increase the emission of oxygen during the night and exclude xylene, which is a type of pollutant found in paints, making the atmosphere of the room clean to breathe.
  • Neem tree: Neem is a natural herbicide that repels insects while at the same time they clean the air at night and improving the emission of oxygen.

Conclusion 

Ultimately, oxygen is one of the most important things that identify plants and trees from other living organisms. Therefore, we have to make an effort to preserve them and increase their production to support our physical and psychological health. Also, to distinguish between plants that are suitable for cultivation inside or outside the home. 


Written By - Shahd Aladwan

Edited By - Susan Ismail