Barbara George-Jaeggli

Sorghum, a genetically diverse C 4 cereal, is an ideal model to study natural variation in photosynthetic capacity. Specific leaf nitrogen (SLN) and leaf mass per leaf area (LMA), as well as, maximal rates of Rubisco carboxylation ( V cmax ), phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) carboxylation ( V pmax ), and electron transport ( J max ), quantified using a C 4 photosynthesis model, were evaluated in two field-grown training sets ( n = 169 plots including 124 genotypes) in 2019 and 2020. Partial least square regression (PLSR) was used to predict V cmax ( R 2 = 0.83 ), V pmax ( R </mml:mro