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Biquan Zhao, Post-Doc Research Associate in Animal Science, flies a drone over the corn fields north

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Biquan Zhao, Post-Doc Research Associate in Animal Science, flies a drone over the corn fields north

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Biquan Zhao, Post-Doc Research Associate in Animal Science, attaches a multispectral camera to a dro

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James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how we

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James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how we

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James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how we

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James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how we

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James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how we

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James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how we

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James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how we

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Lina Lopez-Corona, research technician with James Schnable’s group runs Phenobot through corn rows

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James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how we

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Jinliang Yang, assistant professor of agronomy and horticulture, is leading an effort to better unde

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Jinliang Yang, assistant professor of agronomy and horticulture, is leading an effort to better unde

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Jinliang Yang, assistant professor of agronomy and horticulture, is leading an effort to better unde

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Lina Lopez, a research technologist for James Schnabel’s crew, samples a corn leaf while field phe

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Corn samples. James Schnabel’s crew works their way through a field phenotyping corn plant DNA. Ja

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Corn tassels reach to a cloudy sky in James Schnable’s field northeast of 84th and Havelock. July

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Lina Lopez, a research technologist for James Schnabel’s crew, samples a corn leaf while field phe

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Michael Tross, a PhD student from St. Kitts and Nevis, samples a corn leaf while field phenotyping c

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Jon Turkus makes a fog as he combines dry ice from several portable field kits while field phenotypi

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Michael Tross, a PhD student from St. Kitts and Nevis, samples a corn leaf while field phenotyping c

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James Schnabel, Associate Professor for Agronomy and Horticulture. James Schnable’s field northeas

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Biquan Zhao, PhD student in Biological Systems Engineering, changes the batteries on an autonomous d

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An autonomous drone photographs a field of triticale at the research fields at 84th and Havelock. Bi

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Pascal Izere, master’s student in Biological Systems Engineering, launches an autonomous drone pho

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Pascal Izere, master’s student in Biological Systems Engineering, lands an autonomous drone photog

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Pascal Izere, master’s student in Biological Systems Engineering, launches an autonomous drone pho

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Biquan Zhao, PhD student in Biological Systems Engineering, and Pascal Izere, master’s student in

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Isabele Sigmon, freshman for Hickory, NC, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and

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Mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles lay in the field before they are collected. The seeds will

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Isabele Sigmon, freshman for Hickory, NC, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and

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James Schnable, Charles O. Gardner Professor of Agronomy, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds w

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Research manager Christine Smith carries mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles to the side of th

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James Schnable, Charles O. Gardner Professor of Agronomy, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds w

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Isabele Sigmon, freshman for Hickory, NC, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and

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Sorghum harvesting of seed varieties to be evaluated for larger plot tests. East Campus ag fields. O

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Isabele Sigmon, freshman for Hickory, NC, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and

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Kyle Linders packs mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles into the pickup bed following harvest.

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Jon Turkus carries mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles to the side of the field for collection

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Sorghum harvesting of seed varieties to be evaluated for larger plot tests. East Campus ag fields. O

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Sorghum harvesting of seed varieties to be evaluated for larger plot tests. East Campus ag fields. O

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PhD student Hongyu Jin cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and used to plant test

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Mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles lay in the field before they are collected. The seeds will

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Isabele Sigmon, freshman for Hickory, NC, cuts bagged sorghum panicles. The seeds will be sorted and

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Post-Doctoral student Ravi Mural carries mesh bags full of bagged sorghum panicles to the side of th

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Graduate student Mackenzie Zwiener looks over ripe sorghum plants in her test field northeast of 84t

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Professor James Schnable and graduate student Mackenzie Zwiener look over ripe sorghum plants in Zwi

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