Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/
@leakey77.bsky.social
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
Director: Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation
Transdisciplinary research on stomata, WUE, roots, AI, phenotyping, drought, biomass and food crop production, bioeconomy
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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December 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Delighted to share new work on the 3D anatomy and stomatal patterning of a C4 grass www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Reposted by Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/
High-resolution microCT reveals relationships between stomata and interior leaf anatomy in Sorghum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.05.692612v1
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
High-resolution microCT reveals relationships between stomata and interior leaf anatomy in Sorghum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.05.692612v1
Reposted by Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/
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.
trib.al
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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.
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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November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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
Sign up! Registration closes soon for the 1st Great Lakes Plant Science Conference @rheelab.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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
July 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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
Reposted by Andrew Leakey - lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/
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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May 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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
May 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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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April 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Breaking the barrier of human-annotated training data for machine learning-aided plant research using aerial imagery academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
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...
April 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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
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April 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency
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please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency
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April 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency
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please share - postdoc position available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency
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April 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
please share - postdoc position available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency
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