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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm delighted to be using our unique capabilities at UIUC to non-destructively assess whole root system size and depth distribution of field-grown crops to test the performance of these soybeans engineered by Wolfgang Busch and his Harnessing Plants Initiative team.

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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

High-resolution microCT reveals relationships between stomata and interior leaf anatomy in Sorghum www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 09/12/2025

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.

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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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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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 · 13/05/2025

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 · 23/05/2025

Spatial analysis of cell patterning to aid genetic and phenotypic understanding of grass stomatal density: a case study in maize www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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 · 24/04/2025

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

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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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

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Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/ @leakey77.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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

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