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A #CABBI-led research team has published the first known study synthesizing commercially valuable potassium sorbate directly from triacetic acid lactone (TAL), contributing to the future of #biobased food preservatives. Published in ACS Catalysis: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Applications are now open for New Phytologist next generation scientists 2024, to be held in June at Duke University, NC, USA. These meetings are always stimulating, rewarding and a great deal of fun. I highly recommend early career plant scientists apply! newphytologist.org/nextgenevents/…

PNASNews Lisa Ainsworth @iBioIllinois Agricultural Research Service And more succinct details in the U.S. Department of Energy science highlight slide!

👏 Introducing the fiscal year 2024 awardees of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) Exploratory Research proposal call! Read about the 17 awarded projects, which are focused on aerosols, plastic pollution, methane production, and global climate change. bit.ly/3uNWctJ

An #ILLINOIS led study brings scientists a step closer to successfully growing plants in space. “This work is motivated by the needs of astronauts to grow vegetables sustainably while they are on long missions." ▶️ go.illinois.edu/PlantsInSpace

Thank you to the University of Illinois CABBI team members who joined me in presenting our science to the "SAF in Illinois" conference organized by Intersect Illinois IL Corn ama

So exciting to hear that this experiment is close to starting! scientificamerican.com/podcast/episod…

Does anyone have Bartz minirhizotron camera controllers they are no longer using? Please get in touch by email ([email protected]) if you might be willing to sell/share/donate them. #root_phenotyping

Drought stress has long limited crop production worldwide, a problem exacerbated by climate change. A team led by CABBI Director Andrew Leakey has now designed more efficient C4 bioenergy crops that need less water to grow, without hurting yield. News ➡️ cabbi.bio/cabbi-team-des…

(2/2) The CABBI team's research on improved water use efficiency in C4 bioenergy crops is outlined in two papers published today in the Oxford University Press Journal of Experimental Botany: ✅academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar… ✅academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…

We joined our University of Illinois partners today to celebrate the grand opening of the Plant Biology Innovation Greenhouse at University of Illinois Research Park, which will accelerate #CABBI's work to develop productive, sustainable and climate-resilient bioenergy crops! 🌱 1/2⤵️

(2/2) This energy-efficient facility has a solar array funded by generous support from Student Sustainability Committee @ Illinois! Thanks to Provost John Coleman, Research & Innovation at Illinois Vice Chancellor Susan Martinis, @iBioIllinois U of I College of LAS College of ACES Crop Sciences & Dept of Plant Biology for their support!

A CABBI team used foxtail mosaic virus for gene-editing in #sorghum, highlighting the potential to bypass tissue culture for plant modification and advance breeding programs to develop superior sorghum varieties for agricultural, industrial and bioenergy applications. UMN CBS

Newly elected NAS international member Keiko U. Torii of NaturalSciences @ UT investigates how positional cues influence cell-fate decisions, translating into functional tissue patterning during the development of multicellular organisms. Read more: ow.ly/uZ8y50VFxvE #NASmember

please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/post-do… The RIPE Project ASPB Torii Lab Plant Physiology

Happy to share news of our work to develop a new AI approach that is easier to train and easier to adopt for for phenotyping in plant science and crop breeding. Plant Physiology CABBI Illinois Center for Digital Agriculture North American Plant Phenotyping Network IPPN ASPB news.illinois.edu/new-approach-m…

A team led by CABBI Director Andrew Leakey & Postdoc Sebastian Varela created a machine-learning tool that can teach itself to differentiate between aerial images of flowering & nonflowering grasses—greatly accelerating agricultural field research. News ➡️news.illinois.edu/new-approach-m…

Breaking the barrier of human-annotated training data for machine learning-aided plant research using aerial imagery academic.oup.com/plphys/article…

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/plphys… ASPB #PlantSci

Delighted this week to welcome 50 scientists from Bayer U.S. 🇺🇸 | Crop Science to discuss our capabilities for in-field phenotyping of root system size and distribution #highthroughputphenotyping Kelly Gillespie