My 1st first-author preprint is out on bioRxiv this morning! We use 3D reconstructions of sorghum to measure phyllotaxy (arrangement of leaves around the stem in horizontal space). 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Procedurally generated 3D sorghum models produce training data that teaches AI models how to segment individual leaves in photos of real plants. Really fun project with the Benes lab team at Purdue Computer Science. UNL PSI Nebraska Agronomy and Horticulture (1/2)

📽️ James Schnable's groundbreaking work to develop the first full map of the corn genome builds upon Nebraska's long history of cutting-edge study on corn genetics.

Huge thanks to University of Nebraska-Lincoln Morrill Hall for inviting the Nebraska SNR Herpetology Lab to showcase live herpetofauna at Discovery Days camp last week! 🦎🐍

A recent The Plant Phenome Journal study develops a neural network for leaf segmentation in sorghum using photorealistic 3D models. Achieves 90% accurate leaf counting & a mean IoU score of 0.51! 📊 #DeepLearning More details: acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… James Schnable

Karla karla cuellar perez is an undergraduate researcher comparing eQTLs regulating the expression of orthologous genes in maize and sorghum. Really remarkable work.

CONGRATS Ryleigh Kirby (she/her), Alyssa Hall, Bridget McKinley, Vipin Kumar, Dipesh Giri, Luka Milosevic, Yuvraj Chopra, Caleb Wehrbein & Noshin Tunazzina - NE Ctr for Biotech, Ag Research Division & University of Nebraska CASNR awards. ››go.unl.edu/eh3q #UNL #UNLAgroHort Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Nebraska Extension

So we did a thing…🏠💍

Yesterday, we added a new member to the family. We adopted Bear from the Humane Society after he was surrendered for being “too aggressive”. Later, we were told it was truly because the previous owners got a new puppy and he was too old Now he can enjoy his retirement with us 🦴

Meet Remi Christensen, a Plant Biology major from Seward, Nebraska. Read more ›› ow.ly/aKN650UTkc0

Libia F. Gómez-Trejo presenting her project at the maize genetics meeting. This is her first attendance in our maize society. Please come to her poster #P266 and encourage her cool project! MaizeGDB #MGC2025 UNL Plant Path Grads UNL PSI

The 4 PhDs I mentor presenting at #MGC2025. Waqar Ali Genes controlling yield components Harshita Diverse transcriptional responses to low nitrogen. Nikee Shrestha Plants prefer exons be divisible by 3. Jensina Davis Linking gene expression and phenotypic plasticity.

Of course not only PhD students Sofiya Arora a co mentored MS student who is understanding the downstream consequences of natural cis regulatory gene expression variation. And Caner Yavuz visiting scholar making better maize tissue culture, also with natural genetic variation.

The biggest impact I'll ever have as a professor is the people I help to train. Felt wonderful to see so many current trainees and lab alumni together in one place this past weekend.

James Schnable James Schnable bringing an end to the 2025 Midwest ASPB Conference at University of Nebraska-Lincoln discussing importance of crop genetics and breeding research for food security. Nebraska Agronomy and Horticulture UNL Ag Research Nebraska Research UNLBigData

Current students and the students of one of my former trainees (Ravi Mural) together at ASPB midwest. Just really proud of all of them.

Kyle Linders has been part of my team for half a decade. Undergrad, grad student, and technician. He takes such ownership of his projects and his teams. Today was his last day. Leaving us for bigger and better things in the private sector. Good luck, Kyle! You'll be missed.