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Plot-level satellite imagery can substitute for UAVs in assessing maize phenotypes across multistate field trials Shrestha et al. Schnable Lab AIIRA - AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture Nikee Shrestha Anirudha Powadi NIFA 📖nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp… @Wileyplantsci

Last Friday afternoon, our preprint "Assessing the impact of yield plasticity on hybrid performance in maize" went live on bioRxiv! This was truly such a fun project to work on as my second project in the Schnable Lab! 1/6 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Eventually we have our own lab space today!

This is a sorghum curiosity. A secondary branch twinning around the main stem

Can image analysis do a better job of quantifying severity of disease symptoms in plants? Can we use those measures to identify alleles of genes that provide disease resistance? We (collaborative Saet-Byul Kim /Schnable Lab) are going to find out. Cool project lead by Libia F. Gómez-Trejo!

Waqar Ali (Waqar Ali) and Caner Yavuz (Caner Yavuz) representing our lab at the Nebraska Plant Science Symposium (photos by Nikee Shrestha).

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.

Dear old Nebraska, thank you for introducing me to such wonderful friends & colleagues! #MGM2025 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Schnable Lab

Career webinar happening now! Navigating the job market after graduate school PlantGrads ASPB African Researchers Network Michael Tross, former grad student Schnable Lab UNL PSI, talking about his career trajectory! A recording will be available at plantpostdocs.com PlantPostdocs (@plantpostdocs.bsky.social)

Great turnout at this year's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Showcase! Good to catch up with both old friends (thanks for stopping by Prof. Kim!) and a lot of engineers, programmers and investors what corn was doing at an energy conference.

Here is the confused one.

Great talk on this morning on phenomics and sustainable water use for agriculture from Prof. Deniz Istipliler of Ege Üniversitesi! Glad he could travel the 10,000 kilometers and 36 hours speak here in Nebraska.

Fig. 8 The morphogenetic initiation processes of organs in maize developmental life history. From: Novel insights into maize (Zea mays) development and organogenesis for agricultural optimization researchgate.net/publication/36… link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I loved this essay on scientific writing in Nature Biotechnology (rdcu.be/edUCp). It highlights a key lesson I’ve applied throughout my career: the power of reading, thinking, and keeping a notebook with your ideas. Let me explain why this matters… 🧵👇

Scientists used genome editing to tweak regulatory regions of 2 photosynthesis genes in #sorghum. The result? New insights into how small DNA changes can impact plant performance. doi.org/10.1002/csc2.7… #CRISPR #GeneEditing #OpenAccess

Plant Com Apr 2025 issue online🎉The cover image is inspired by the Chinese idiom “珠联璧合 (Zhu Lian Bi He)”, symbolizing the synergistic integration of complex multi-omics data through AI to drive biological discovery and innovation in plant breeding. cell.com/plant-communic…

That feeling when your chromatogram reveals something unexpected. #chromeleon #peanutresearch #HPLC #PhD

Whatever else the coming weeks and months bring: our corn (some of it) is planted and growing.