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Asterosaponins are the class of compounds - they have a cholesterol like organic core.
Apparently, these saponins make pore-forming complexes with Δ5-sterols of cell membranes, and so are deadly to all usual kind of life, including bacteria and fungi. Quote:
Starfish and sea cucumber cell membranes are resistant to their own
saponines due to the ...
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One way to do this is to use the "humid operative temperature" equation, or something similar. A variant of this equation, specifically for estimating leaf temperature, is derived using a leaf energy balance equation in chapter 14.1 of the Environmental Biophysics book (cited below).
I'll let you look up the actual equation since I'm not sure how to do ...
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