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🤖 Accelerating progress in plant science via AI-driven research 🤖

✍️ Guest edited by Johannes Kromdijk & Zoran Nikoloski

📅 Deadline: 31 January 2026

📄 Research and review paper inquiries are welcome, contact us 👉 bit.ly/JXBissues

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All chapters of A Hitchhiker's Guide to Leaf-Level Gas
Exchange are now available to read: www.licor.com/podcast/leaf.... Printing commences soon! I hope you find this an excellent gift for the gas exchanger in your life. Remember, you don't need to wait for a holiday to show someone you care...

If you're into genomes and crop physiology, we've a new paper out! High-throughput screen of photoprotective kinetics in sorghum, and candidate genes underlying NPQ traits: doi.org/10.1002/pei3.70114
Big thanks to a great group of coauthors who helped make it possible.
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Are you or someone you know an Evolutionary parasitologist? Wanna come work with me? Low cost of living, lots of areas doe outdoor recreation nearby. Please share far and wide! 🧪 🌱 nsuok.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Confused farmers observing chickens moving through a farm house window demonstrating a description of flux velocity and flux.

And yes, there are comics, courtesy of Jason Hupp. Gorgeous botanical imagery will show up in later chapters.

We have stickers! Find @savageplantphys.bsky.social to get some and find out more about our section! #bsaecophys #botany2025

This comprehensive, humorous (hopefully), and well-illustrated (definitely) guide gets into the physics, engineering, and biology underlying our favorite plant physiology measurements, in a way that we hope will be easily approachable and accessible. Dare I say, you might even enjoy reading it...

Gas exchangers of all stripes, please take note: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Leaf-Level Gas Exchange is being released chapter-by-chapter with an accompanying podcast! www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...

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Definitely a recommended read for any exchanger of gases working with stressed and low-flux material. This summarizes many important considerations and measurement assumptions underlying the models of stomatal conductance and other derived parameters which are implemented in gas exchange systems.

Deadline for short talk/poster abstracts is TOMORROW!

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Detailed representation of H2O gas exchange (left) and CO2 gas exchange (right) at the adaxial (upper) and abaxial (lower) leaf surfaces in an amphistomatous leaf. This panel illustrates the separate gas exchange processes for each leaf surface, which can be measured individually if the upper and lower cuvettes are analysed separately—though this setup is not common in commercial gas exchange systems. Stomatal, cuticle, and boundary layer resistances are depicted for both surfaces, along with the mole fractions of water vapour and CO2.

Excited to share our paper with Anna Gardner and @florianabusch.bsky.social in Plant Ecophysiology!🌿

We review challenges in interpreting plant stress responses using gas exchange data, offer solutions to improve accuracy and discuss gaps in our current knowledge.

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Hello BlueSky! We're here for our usual combination of scientific information and geeky shenanigans.

Congratulations to our PhD student Georgia, who passed her viva yesterday with (very) minor corrections! All while being interrupted by the fire alarm… Thanks to Julian Hibberd and Tracy Lawson for being excellent examiners! 🌱🌿

Nonlinear models based on leaf architecture traits explain the variability of mesophyll conductance across plant species We demonstrated that systematic training and testing of random forest regression models using a comprehensive data set, covering different plant functional types, can pinpoint leaf structural and ana....

New paper out - led by Milad Rahimi-Majd

This study uses non-linear models to explore the relationships between anatomy and leaf mesophyll conductance

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The long and tortuous path towards improving photosynthesis by engineering elevated mesophyll conductance Plant, Cell & Environment is an ecology journal analysing the ways plants respond to their environment including biological, physiological and ecological factors.

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New review paper out:

We outline the uncertainties/ambiguities that are present when estimating mesophyll conductance (gm).

We also explore whether genetically engineering higher gm will lead to greater crop yields.

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