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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/

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Prof: Plant Bio and Crop Sci at Uni of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Director: Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation Transdisciplinary research on stomata, WUE, roots, AI, phenotyping, drought, biomass and food crop production, bioeconomy

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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · Aug 7

Sign up! Registration closes soon for the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference @rheelab.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social

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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · Jul 24

Delighted this week to welcome 50 scientists from @bayercropscience.bsky.social to discuss our capabilities for in-field phenotyping of root system size and distribution #high-throughputphenotyping

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · May 13

Breaking the barrier of human-annotated training data for machine learning-aided plant research using aerial imagery (Sebastian Varela , Xuying Zheng , Joyce Njuguna , Erik Sacks , Dylan Allen , Jeremy Ruhter , Andrew D B Leakey) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · May 23

Spatial analysis of cell patterning to aid genetic and phenotypic understanding of grass stomatal density: a case study in maize https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.21.655366v1

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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · Apr 25

Breaking the barrier of human-annotated training data for machine learning-aided plant research using aerial imagery academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

Breaking the barrier of human-annotated training data for machine learning-aided plant research using aerial imagery

Machine learning approach accelerates plant phenotyping by reducing large amounts of human-annotated data, enabling faster and more efficient detection of

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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · Apr 24

Happy to share news of our work to develop a new AI approach that is easier to train and easier to adopt for phenotyping in plant science & crop breeding. @plantphys.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @nappn.bsky.social @ippn.bsky.social @ripeproject.bsky.social news.illinois.edu/new-approach...

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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · Apr 24

please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency
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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · Apr 24

please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency
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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · Apr 9

please share - postdoc position available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency
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