Really enjoyed having NSF program directors visit our two NSF Global Centers on plants and microbes for the Bioeconomy: ASAP publish.illinois.edu/globalcenter... and GCBA gcba.illinois.edu @aspbofficial.bsky.social @acs.org @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social @globalplantgpc.bsky.social

Virus‐induced gene editing of stomatal regulators in Nicotiana benthamiana enables rapid functional genomics - Tibebu - 2026 - The Plant Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Virus‐induced gene editing of stomatal regulators in Nicotiana benthamiana enables rapid functional genomics

We present a rapid method for functional genomics using a tobacco rattle virus-based gene editing platform. This platform enables both somatic and heritable editing of stomatal regulators in Nicotian...

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Delighted to share new work on the 3D anatomy and stomatal patterning of a C4 grass www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

High-resolution microCT reveals relationships between stomata and interior leaf anatomy in Sorghum

Stomata are pores in the leaf epidermis that regulate the trade-off between CO2 uptake for photosynthesis and water vapor loss to the atmosphere. Stomatal patterning therefore influences water use eff...

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High-resolution microCT reveals relationships between stomata and interior leaf anatomy in Sorghum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.05.692612v1

Just like cornstalks across the Midwest, this crop grows several feet tall as it reaches up to the sky. And similar to soybean cultivation in the last century, annual production of miscanthus is projected to skyrocket to millions of acres by 2050.

Illinois researchers say versatile grass could be used for sustainable fuel, building materials and more

Miscanthus has a smaller carbon footprint than corn and soybeans, and experts say it has the potential to strengthen U.S. energy independence.

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Stomata In-Sight: Integrating Live Confocal Microscopy with Leaf Gas Exchange and Environmental Control url: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... @tombuckleylab.bsky.social @lawrensack.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @scottmcadam.bsky.social @stanfordstomata.bsky.social

Stomata In-Sight: Integrating Live Confocal Microscopy with Leaf Gas Exchange and Environmental Control

The development of a tool to simultaneously measure stomatal conductance and aperture enables investigation into the role of stomatal anatomy in controllin

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

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

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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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

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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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...

please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/post-... @ripeproject.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/post-...

please share - postdoc position available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/post-...