Spongy mesophyll close spongy mesophyllThe plant tissue in a leaf which has loosely packed cells and air spaces between them to allow gas exchange. tissue is packed loosely for efficient gas exchange.

"And so that's absorbing carbon and turning it into sugar, and that's all in the mesophyll cell type, and then that sugar eventually gets turned into starch that's filling up these grains here ...

guard cells, epidermal and mesophyll layers, and vascular cells. An autonomous robotic platform enables high-throughput, low-cost, and high-volume phenotypic measurements in maize canopies ...