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Meeting advertisement for C4-60, a meeting celebrating 60 years since the discovery of C4 photosynthesis.

Registration is open for *C460- From Kranz to Crops: Celebrating 60 Years of C4 Discovery and Innovation*

Celebrating 60 years since the discovery of C4 photosynthesis!

23-25 July 2026 at Lancaster University, UK

Generously funded by @annbot.bsky.social, @newphyt.bsky.social, and others!

It can be, yes!

LI-COR analyzer and smart chamber next to a naturally occurring methane flame.

Got enough methane for the ground to be *on fire*? We can measure that! (The methane, not the fire. Please don't expose our instruments to open flame). Photo courtesy of Dr. Ian Smillie, who was visiting researchers in Grenoble last week.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! This day is celebrated annually to promote the full and equal access and participation of women in science and technology 👩‍🏫 Take a moment to reflect: what opportunities could you take to increase gender equality in your workplace or community?

Square promotional graphic for Botany 2026 featuring a desert illustration with cacti and flowers inside a circular badge. Text reads: “Biodiversity at the Boundaries. Botany 2026. August 1–5. Tucson, Arizona.” Below: “Call for abstracts now open! Deadline April 13, 2026.” Website: botanyconference.org. Logos of participating botanical societies appear along the bottom.

The #Botany2026 Call for Abstracts is OPEN!

Join 1,000+ botanical scientists to share research, spark collaborations, & explore this year’s theme: Biodiversity at the Boundaries.

Submission Deadline: April 13, 2026

Submit abstract here: www.xcdsystem.com/botany/abstr...

www.botanyconference.org

Using controlled genetic approaches, RIPE researchers altered soybean leaf shape and found that narrower leaves can improve how efficiently plants use available light.

This work was led by RIPE researchers Bishal Tamang and Lisa Ainsworth.

Read about it here: go.illinois.edu/ripenews

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From the fjords to the only "ocean front property in Arizona", LI-COR instruments are working to help researchers understand our world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSjn... (sorry about the George Strait earworm)

YouTube video by LI-COR Monitoring Air–Sea Carbon Cycling in Greenland’s Glacial Fjords | GO-MARIE Expedition

Researchers at the UMCES took the LI-7810 and a DIC system out into the fjords and made a video about it. Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOIZ...

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New results to share? New methods? Your science matters, and #ESA2026 is the perfect venue for it. Share, get (and give!) feedback, and build your professional network in ecology. Contributed talk & poster abstract submissions open through 2/19! https://ow.ly/OpyP50Y62qh

🍃 Plenary 🍃 photosynthesis2026.com

Lisa Ainsworth @ibioillinois.bsky.social

🌿Lisa’s research into the mechanisms of plant responses to climate change aims to maximize crop production in a future climate of elevated carbon dioxide, ozone, higher temperatures and drought

#ICPR26 #plantscience

Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life Explore how extreme heat affects plants and other ectothermic organisms that underpin ecosystem productivity.Abstract submission now open

5 days remain to submit your speaker abstracts, travel grant applications and early-bird registrations for the 47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extending the limits of thermal life!

📅 2–5 June 2026
📍 Córdoba, Spain

Deadline: 2 February 👇
www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

#PlantScience

#NatuRAproject #ecosystemgasfluxes in the #drakensberg with a custom made tent setup and a @li-corenv.bsky.social LI-7810. @anna-dam.bsky.social on the chain ladder to the high site.
@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @vvandvik.bsky.social @audhalbritter.bsky.social

We ... did? 🙂

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...

And here's the link for eddy covariance: www.licor.com/products/edd...

Here's the link for soil flux: www.licor.com/products/soi...

Are you interested in attending a training course for your photosynthesis, soil flux, or eddy covariance instruments? We have training classes! Here's the link for photosynthesis training: www.licor.com/products/pho...

Kasey Barton: "Seedlings Are Not Merely Smaller Adult Plants" Botany One interviews Dr Kasey Barton, one of the editors of an upcoming Special Issue at Annals of Botany.

🌿 Meeting Plant Scientists | @botany.one

🎙️ Kasey Barton
📝 “Seedlings Are Not Merely Smaller Adult Plants”

A new interview from Botany One.
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YouTube video by C-PALEO LAB Projet Carbonique : installation d'une tour à flux dans un marais aménagé - Lac Saint-Pierre

Dans le cadre du projet CARBONIQUE et en collaboration avec le EcoFlux Lab de la professeure Sara Knox à l'université McGill, une tour à covariance des turbulences a été installé dans un marais aménagé par Canards Illimités.

Voici la vidéo de l'installation d'avril 2025 ☀️🚜🦆🌱 youtu.be/z37eCc8C8bw

This is another flux tower we installed this spring/summer for the @carbonique.bsky.social project. This time the tower was installed on a floating platform in a restored marsh near Baie-du-Febvre.

Thank you to my colleague Léonie @cpaleolab.bsky.social for putting together this video 💚

Vitis vinifera L. varieties (cv. Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay) vary in leaf water flux in response to elevated CO2 growing conditions and a gradual water deficit This study examines how increasing atmospheric CO2 levels and limited water availability affect water use efficiency and overall water loss in two popular

♻️ Vitis vinifera L. varieties (cv. Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay) vary in leaf water flux in response to elevated CO2 growing conditions and a gradual water deficit by Alessandra Zuniga and co-authors.

Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp...

#PlantScience

A green cake with coloured coconut flakes, a pink tower like construction and a sensor on top

Cake! our department has an annual Botany Bake Off, which this year was won by Josua. That is a £D printed flux tower with a functional CO2 sensor. Hlf the cake has a lot of different colouts, represnting plant diversity in the real world and the other half has only two, like in a model.

Contrasting roles of ground, trees, ponds and grazing in carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide fluxes of an African semi-arid savanna Understanding greenhouse gas fluxes in semi-arid ecosystems is critical for improving our understanding of biogeochemical cycles, particularly in unde…

New exciting paper with Lu Fluxes involvement, highlighting how trees, ponds and grazing strongly shape greenhouse gas dynamics in Sahel savannas, showing how complex and dynamic semi‑arid ecosystems really are.

Well Done Alek!
@beccsweden.bsky.social
@lund-university.bsky.social

Presented with profound apologies to the ghost of Gene Autry. What do you want Santa Flux to bring you this year??

Here comes Santa Flux, here comes Santa Flux
Right down Santa Flux Lane
Mixin’ and Fixin’ and all his reindeers
Pullin' on the reins
Bells are ringin', children singin'
All is merry and bright
So hang your stockings and say your prayers
'Cause Santa Flux comes tonight.

🎶 Here comes Santa Flux, here comes Santa Flux, right down Santa Flux Lane….. 🎶

Merry CH4ristmas!

We're headed to #AGU25 next week! Time for beignets, boudin and booth goodies. See more of what you can expect at Booth 311 here: www.licor.com/conference/A....

The final episode of our podcast is available, which means that the entire book is now available. Check out Episode 10 here: www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...