Hyperspectral proximal sensing shows clear relation between Spatial pattern of leaf traits and bacterial alpha diversity

Fanhao Kong, Annabell Rosemarie Wagner, Susanne Walden, Eric Martiné, Sebastian Achilles, Lucy Saueressig, Stella Drechsler, Lars Opgenoorth, Robert R Junker, Hamed Azarbad, Mona Schreiber, Maaike Y Bader, Jörg Bendix · 2025

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Fanhao Kong and co-authors present a 2025 study on reading leaf bacteria from leaf light. Bacteria that live on leaves affect gas flows tied to climate. Their spread across a leaf is hard to map with lab tests alone. The team used a close-range scan that reads many light bands from a leaf surface.

Learning models used those scans to predict leaf traits and the richness of leaf bacteria. The models held up under varied heat, light, and water settings, on both sides of the leaf. Laying the two maps over each other showed fine links between leaf traits and where bacteria gather. The method could help gauge how leaf bacteria shape forest gas balance.

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CREATORFanhao Kong, Annabell Rosemarie Wagner, Susanne Walden, Eric Martiné, Sebastian Achilles, Lucy Saueressig, Stella Drechsler, Lars Opgenoorth, Robert R Junker, Hamed Azarbad, Mona Schreiber, Maaike Y Bader, Jörg Bendix
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE58 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12756227

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