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We used machine learning to segment stomatal guard cells from 3D confocal data and learned new things about stomatal biomechanics! Great collab with Dolzodmaa Davaasuren, Yintong Chen, Leila Jaafar, Rayna Marshall, Angelica Dunham, and James Z. Wang! cell.com/patterns/fullt…

A nice news story about how we developed a pipeline called 3D CellNet to automatically trace plant cells in 3D and used it to gain unexpected insights into stomatal biomechanics! With Yintong Chen, Leila Jaafar, and other great collaborators: psu.edu/news/research/…

Lovely news article highlighting our new collaborative project to study how grass stomata work, funded by U.S. National Science Foundation! science.psu.edu/news/145m-nsf-…

🍃Join us to learn about the newly published paper ‘Architecture and functions of stomatal cell walls in eudicots and grasses’ in Annals of Botany by Leila Jaafar & Charlie Anderson (1/7) 👉 botany.fyi/v50pjd #AoBpapers #Botany #PlantScience

Stomata are both fascinating AND photogenic! Kudos to Leila Jaafar and Yintong Chen, plus our collaborators, for the cover article! Cover art by Leila Jaafar: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1365313x/2…

Young guard cells function dynamically despite low mechanical anisotropy but gain efficiency during stomatal maturation in Arabidopsis 🌱mature guard cells, despite thicker walls, open more efficiently due to mechanical anisotropy doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16… Leila Jaafar Charlie Anderson