The Developmental Basis of Stomatal Density and Flux.

1 Scientific Correspondence: 1 2 The developmental basis of stomatal density and flux 3 4 Lawren Sack and Thomas N. Buckley 5 6 7 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, 621 8 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California, 90095 USA 9 10 Plant Breeding Institute, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Sydney 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Correspondence author: 21 22 Lawren Sack 23 24 Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 25 University of California, Los Angeles 26 621 Charles E. Young Dr. South 27 Los Angeles, CA 90095 28 (310) 825-6525 29 30 [email protected] 31 32 33 Author Contributions: L.S. and T.N.B. designed the study, conducted the analyses and wrote 34 the article. 35 36 Funding Information: This work was supported by the US National Science Foundation 37 (Awards #1147292 and 1457279) and the Australian Research Council (DP150103863 and 38 LP130101183). 39 40 41 One-sentence summary: We derived equations for stomatal density and maximum theoretical 42 stomatal conductance as functions of stomatal initiation rate, epidermal cell size and stomatal 43 size, enabling scaling from development to flux. 44 45 Plant Physiology Preview. Published on June 6, 2016, as DOI:10.1104/pp.16.00476