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The Complexities of Modern Plant Phenomics: A Guest Blog by our Plant Phenomics Series Guest Editors

Jun 7, 2016

Imagine you would like to study a plant species of interest, say for its ability to supply food, fiber, fuel or just to gain a deeper scientific understanding. Two approaches immediately come to mind...

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Illumina Announces Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to Receive Agricultural Greater Good Initiative Grant to Improve Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jun 7, 2016

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 7, 2016-- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is the 2016 recipient of the Agricultural Greater Good...

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In the middle of a field of sorghum, near Maricopa, a giant robot is at work.

Agri-Bots: US Department Of Energy invests millions in cutting-edge Arizona crop scanner

Jun 2, 2016

In the middle of a field of sorghum, near Maricopa, a giant robot is at work. Scientists are using that machine to study biofuel crops under drought conditions. To do this, the U.S. Department of...

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Sorghum checkoff announces $500,000 investment

Jun 2, 2016

The Sorghum Checkoff announced today a $500,000 investment in sorghum research, made at the inaugural Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) program field day at the...

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World's Largest Ag Robot Video

Apr 21, 2016

Lemnatec Field Scanalyzer The Lemnatec Field Scanalyzer at the USDA Arid Land Research Station in Maricopa, Arizona is the largest field crop analytics robot in the world (to our knowledge). This...

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LemnaTec’s ‘cool technology’ at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation

LemnaTec’s ‘cool technology’ at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit USA

Mar 3, 2016

March 3rd 2016, Aachen, Germany: Global plant phenotyping specialist LemnaTec teamed up with the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center last week in Washington, DC, to present the Field Scanalyzer to...

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LemnaTec’s ‘cool technology’ at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit USA

Mar 3, 2016

ARPA-E’s Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) program is bringing together top experts from different disciplines – agriculture, robotics and data analytics – to rethink...

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David LeBauer, a plant biologist, will act as principal investigator for the supercomputing pipeline and reference sensing platform components.

Illinois receives $1.8M to create data platform for Big Data in plant breeding

Jul 13, 2015

Historically, successful trait selection in plant breeding has involved manual measurement of individual plants. This requirement limits the number of plants that can be evaluated, and the scope of...

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LemnaTec Corp. receives grant for ag phenotyping

Jun 26, 2015

Global plant phenotyping specialist LemnaTec Corporation, issued a news release from Germany that announced it secured the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Award for Advanced Field...

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DOE's ARPA-E funds 6 projects to improve sorghum development

Jun 23, 2015

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $30 million to six projects under its Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture program. TERRA projects...

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