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We manufacture the instruments you need to answer questions about plants, the atmosphere, and the environment in general.

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newphyt.bsky.social
Tuning the C4 supercharger: improving #photosynthesis and #yield in C4 #crops

#TansleyReview by @mariaermakova.bsky.social, Robert E. Sharwood and Robert T. Furbank

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#PlantScience @monashbiol.bsky.social.
Reactions, processes, and parameters controlling C4 photosynthetic flux in the NADP-ME subtype.
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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blackrockforest.bsky.social
The Fall Newsletter is OUT! 🍁 Feat: Riverdale students doing salamander research, a recap from @hannahgais.bsky.social , and forest updates. Read it now: www.blackrockforest.org/newsletter #BlackRockForest #FieldResearch #Science #FieldStation
Dr. Hanna Makowski using a LI-COR photosynthesis instrument Dr. Rachel Cox supervises a METER Weather Station installation by Riverdale students at a BRF field site. A clutch of juvenile timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) Reconstruction of the old pump house by Pecks Road
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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calfire.bsky.social
California just hit a major milestone for #ClimateScience!
In the heart of CAL FIRE’s Jackson Demonstration State Forest, a brand-new carbon monitoring tower listens to the forest breathe.
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#ClimateAction #ForestManagement #Redwoods #Sustainability
Tower listens to Redwoods' breath
YouTube video by CAL FIRE TV
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November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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envmet.bsky.social
In our ECOSENSE forest we are monitoring ecosystem processes and stresses in real-time using distributed sensor networks: Our new @egu.eu preprint discusses the implementation of this major technical infrastructure and its data management @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social - doi.org/10.5194/egus...
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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rschwutke.bsky.social
We are going back to basics measuring light curves on sun and shade leaves of Hedera helix in the practical course for biology Bachelot's students!
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
li-corenv.bsky.social
Episode 8 of the podcast is available now. This week, we're focusing on the fluorescence and gas exchange measurements combo-pack and our "guest speaker" is Dr. Ian Smillie from our European support team. www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
li-corenv.bsky.social
There's no conductance from this sunflower leaf. Maybe we should call tech support?
A LI-COR scientist is attempting to take stomatal conductance measurements from a sculpture of a sunflower. She is scratching her head and looking confused.
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
li-corenv.bsky.social
Episode 7 of our podcast is out today! Listen to Seton and Elizabeth (yes, that Elizabeth!) describe the considerations to choose the perfect leaf for your gas exchange measurements. www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...
October 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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blandinel.bsky.social
Catch up: Part 2 (July 26th, dry heath) - #CarbonFluxes in control & warmed plots ( #OTC ≈ +1 °C), rapid weather shifts ⛅, plus plant height 🌱 and other environmental drivers' measurements.

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blandinel.bsky.social Blandine Lyonnard @blandinel.bsky.social · Oct 15
How do we measure #CO2 and #CH4 exchanges from alpine-Arctic #tundra #ecosystems...

... when the weather changes so fast? ⛅

Here is how, in a control plot and a passively warmed plot of a dry heath at #Latnjajaure field station, 100m a.s.l. near Abisko, Northern Sweden, on July 26th, 2025.
October 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
On the cover of our #LatestIssue: Blepharis furcata at Klein Aus Vista, Namibia, is one of three Blepharis species with intraspecific variation in C4 cycle integration. Image courtesy of Matt Stata.

📖 See Stata et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The cover of New Phytologist volume 248, issue 4, showing a small, spiky plant with curled light green leaves and one trumpet-shaped lilac flower. Blepharis furcata at Klein Aus Vista, Namibia, is one of three Blepharis species with intraspecific variation in C4 cycle integration.
October 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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aobp.bsky.social
🌿New article in @aobp.bsky.social addressing how stomatal traits can be used to breed crops resilient to heat and drought and why now is the time to move from characterization to application.

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

#PlantScience
Schematic representation of advances in approaches to stomatal phenotyping, outlining (1) current phenotyping approaches, (2) future novel techniques, and (3) how phenotypic insights can lead to rapid deployment of stomatal traits in breeding programmes for impactful breeding outcomes.
October 16, 2025 at 6:07 AM
li-corenv.bsky.social
Get you a support team that will put on a life jacket and paddle a canoe if that's what's needed to explain the details of leaf area index measurements. Photo credit to Erik Johnson in our sales team.
A woman is sitting in a canoe on a pond with a life jacket on, holding an instrument.
October 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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bioclimatology.bsky.social
Another two days of great talks and discussions at the Baldocchi Symposium in Göttingen. Lots of fun at the visits of our flux towers Reinshof and Hainich.
Thanks everyone for coming and making it a wonderful event.
October 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
li-corenv.bsky.social
Episode 6 of the Leaf to Leaf podcast has been posted. This week: Water, temperature, and Ghostbusters jokes.
October 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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jogaudard.bsky.social
My first PhD paper is out!
It describes the fluxible #rstats package, a toolbox to process and quality check #ecosystem #gasfluxes in a reproducible and automated way.

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fluxible: An R package to process ecosystem gas fluxes from closed‐loop chambers in an automated and reproducible way
Measuring ecosystem gas fluxes is crucial to understanding the dynamics of ecosystem water and energy cycling. A common method to measure ecosystem gas fluxes (CO2, CH4, N2O) and to compare experi...
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September 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
li-corenv.bsky.social
The next episode of our podcast has been released. This week: CO2, math, and baked goods. www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...
September 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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botsocamerica.bsky.social
Honoring the 2025 Physiological & Ecophysiological Section Awards Recipients!

🏅 LI-COR Prize Presentation Award: Daniel Mok
🏅 LI-COR Prize Poster Award: Amelie LeTierce
🏅 Presentation Award: Malinda Barberio
🏅 Poster Award: Osedipo Adegbeyeni

Visit: botany.org/home/awards....

#BSA2025AwardsBlitz
Flyer titled Botanical Society of America – Physiological and Ecophysiological Section Student Presentations Awards, 2025 Recipients. Autumn leaf background. Four awardees are pictured: Daniel Mok (Michigan State University), LI-COR Prize Presentation Award; Amelie Letierce (University of Minnesota Duluth), LI-COR Prize Poster Award; Malinda Barberio (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Presentation Award; and Osedipo Adegbeyeni (University of Utah), Poster Award.
September 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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janissedeluigi.bsky.social
Up in the canopies! 🌲
Nice to be in #Pfynwald helping Giovanni Bortolami assess Scots pine trees' responses to vpd and drought in the amazing #VPDrought field site! Looking forward to seeing the results!

More info about the project here: www.wsl.ch/it/progetti/...

@wslresearch.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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cavycavs.bsky.social
What an inspiring and energizing kick off to the week at #PEPG2025. We spent the morning getting up to speed on our themes, and the afternoon in hands on practical activities thanks to our manufacturing partners!

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September 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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sebiology.bsky.social
More pictures from theDay 2 for the PEPG 2025 workshop

Many thanks to Mengjie Fan for an impressive video
September 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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sebiology.bsky.social
Day 1 of the #PEPGWorkshop kicked off with inspiring talks on leaf gas exchange, fluorescence, water relations, roots & soil, and ecosystems 🌱✨
Afternoon = hands-on + networking!
September 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
li-corenv.bsky.social
Have you listened to our Leaf to Leaf Podcast? Episode 4 was released yesterday and should be en-light-ening if you've ever wondered about how and why to set your instrument light levels. www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...
September 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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elinaoksanen.bsky.social
Field working day at the Finnish Open Lab of the rewet-he.eu project. We have been running Eddy Covariance measurements in this remote site since summer 2023, along with the biodiversity studies. The peatland is protected by Natural Heritage Foundation.
September 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
li-corenv.bsky.social
We recently received this photo of two photosynthesis instrument "cousins" doing their work at Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. The photo is courtesy Carrie Wu (@carriewu.bsky.social) and posted with permission.
In the foreground is an LI-6800 sensor head. In the background is an LI-6400 console and its sensor head. There are also two legs and a few flowers in the fore and midground.
August 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
li-corenv.bsky.social
Have you listened to our new podcast, Leaf to Leaf? Episode 3 is out now and focuses on stability or the lack thereof (for your instrument, if not your life). www.licor.com/podcast/leaf...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM