Reply to: Differences between dumbbell and kidney-bean stomatal types may influence relationships between stomatal traits and the environment.

Congcong Liu, Lawren Sack, Alec S Baird, Ying Li, Jiahui Zhang, Kailiang Yu, Guirui Yu, Nianpeng He

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Origins of stomatal mechanics in grasses.Nature communications · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Congcong LiuKey Laboratory of Ecology and Environment in Minority Areas (Minzu University of China), National Ethnic Affairs Commission, Beijing, China.

Lawren SackDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7009-7202

Alec S BairdInstitute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9859-5633

Ying LiKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Jiahui ZhangKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Kailiang YuKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0145-0356

Guirui YuKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1859-8966

Nianpeng HeInstitute of Carbon Neutrality, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China. henp@igsnrr.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0458-5953

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40640162

DOI10.1038/s41467-025-61636-x

PMCPMC12246074

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