“…Photosynthesis was appreciably depressed by oil application only when the undersides of leaves were treated. Grape leaves are hy-postomatous (Mullins et al, 1992), and it has been shown repeatedly that application of oils to leaf surfaces with stomata leads to greater leaf penetration as well as more visible injury (Dallyn, 1953;Kelley, 1930a;Rohrbaugh, 1934) and greater depression of transpiration (Kelley, 1930b) and photosynthesis (Dallyn, 1953;Kelley, 1930a;Rohrbaugh, 1934) than application to surfaces without stomata. Several authors have shown that oils of viscosities similar to JMS Stylet-Oil can also slowly penetrate through intact cuticles without stomatal openings (Ginsburg, 1931;Knight et al, 1929;Külps and Hein, 1972), but if penetration through the upper surface took place in our grape leaves, it was not enough to affect photosynthesis.…”