![James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how well the plant is performing photosynthesis. What used to be done by hand using protractors is now quickly done by a camera fitted with cameras and lights being guided up and down the rows. August 10, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler/ University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/230810_Corn_Robot_424.jpg)
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![James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how well the plant is performing photosynthesis. What used to be done by hand using protractors is now quickly done by a camera fitted with cameras and lights being guided up and down the rows. August 10, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler/ University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/230810_Corn_Robot_410.jpg)
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![James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how well the plant is performing photosynthesis. What used to be done by hand using protractors is now quickly done by a camera fitted with cameras and lights being guided up and down the rows. August 10, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler/ University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/230810_Corn_Robot_401.jpg)
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![James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how well the plant is performing photosynthesis. What used to be done by hand using protractors is now quickly done by a camera fitted with cameras and lights being guided up and down the rows. August 10, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler/ University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/230810_Corn_Robot_380.jpg)
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![James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how well the plant is performing photosynthesis. What used to be done by hand using protractors is now quickly done by a camera fitted with cameras and lights being guided up and down the rows. August 10, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler/ University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/230810_Corn_Robot_353.jpg)
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![Lina Lopez-Corona, research technician with James Schnable’s group runs Phenobot through corn rows in a field northeast of 84th and Havelock. Phenobot is a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how well the plant is performing photosynthesis. What used to be done by hand using protractors is now quickly done by the robot with a remote-controlled robot fitted with cameras and lights. August 10, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler/ University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/230810_Corn_Robot_293.jpg)
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![James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how well the plant is performing photosynthesis. What used to be done by hand using protractors is now quickly done by a camera fitted with cameras and lights being guided up and down the rows. August 10, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler/ University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/230810_Corn_Robot_201.jpg)
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![James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how well the plant is performing photosynthesis. What used to be done by hand using protractors is now quickly done by a camera fitted with cameras and lights being guided up and down the rows. August 10, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler/ University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/230810_Corn_Robot_132.jpg)
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![James Schnable’s group is testing Phenobot, a robot that measures leaf angle on corn to see how well the plant is performing photosynthesis. What used to be done by hand using protractors is now quickly done by a camera fitted with cameras and lights being guided up and down the rows. August 10, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler/ University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/230810_Corn_Robot_085.jpg)
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![Jon Turkus makes a fog as he combines dry ice from several portable field kits while field phenotyping corn plant DNA in James Schnable’s field northeast of 84th and Havelock. July 8, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/220708_Schnable_Corn_577.jpg)
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![Corn tassels reach to a cloudy sky in James Schnable’s field northeast of 84th and Havelock. July 8, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/220708_Schnable_Corn_514.jpg)
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![James Schnabel, Associate Professor for Agronomy and Horticulture. James Schnable’s field northeast of 84th and Havelock research fields. July 8, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/220708_Schnable_Corn_508.jpg)
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![Michael Tross, a PhD student from St. Kitts and Nevis, samples a corn leaf while field phenotyping corn plant DNA in James Schnable’s field northeast of 84th and Havelock research fields. July 8, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/220708_Schnable_Corn_259.jpg)
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![Corn samples. James Schnabel’s crew works their way through a field phenotyping corn plant DNA. James Schnable’s field northeast of 84th and Havelock research fields. July 8, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/220708_Schnable_Corn_234.jpg)
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![Michael Tross, a PhD student from St. Kitts and Nevis, samples a corn leaf while field phenotyping corn plant DNA in James Schnable’s field northeast of 84th and Havelock research fields. July 8, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/220708_Schnable_Corn_165.jpg)
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![James Schnabel’s crew works their way through a field phenotyping corn plant DNA. James Schnable’s field northeast of 84th and Havelock research fields. July 8, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/220708_Schnable_Corn_152.jpg)
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![Lina Lopez, a research technologist for James Schnabel’s crew, samples a corn leaf while field phenotyping corn plant DNA. James Schnable’s field northeast of 84th and Havelock research fields. July 8, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/220708_Schnable_Corn_143.jpg)
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![Lina Lopez, a research technologist for James Schnabel’s crew, samples a corn leaf while field phenotyping corn plant DNA. James Schnable’s field northeast of 84th and Havelock research fields. July 8, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/220708_Schnable_Corn_090.jpg)
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![Students use a punch to collect samples from several corn plants in each plot at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Agronomy and Horticulture research fields at 84th and Havelock. The leaf punches will be tested for high throughput RNA and will be tested across it's 30,000 genes and almost 300 metabolites. The student workers are testing the plants as part of James Schnable's research group. July 8, 2020. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/200708_Corn_411.jpg)
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![Students use a punch to collect samples from several corn plants in each plot at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Agronomy and Horticulture research fields at 84th and Havelock. The leaf punches will be tested for high throughput RNA and will be tested across it's 30,000 genes and almost 300 metabolites. The student workers are testing the plants as part of James Schnable's research group. July 8, 2020. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/200708_Corn_401.jpg)
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![Students use a punch to collect samples from several corn plants in each plot at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Agronomy and Horticulture research fields at 84th and Havelock. The leaf punches will be tested for high throughput RNA and will be tested across it's 30,000 genes and almost 300 metabolites. The student workers are testing the plants as part of James Schnable's research group. July 8, 2020. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/200708_Corn_395.jpg)
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![Students use a punch to collect samples from several corn plants in each plot at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Agronomy and Horticulture research fields at 84th and Havelock. The leaf punches will be tested for high throughput RNA and will be tested across it's 30,000 genes and almost 300 metabolites. The student workers are testing the plants as part of James Schnable's research group. July 8, 2020. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/200708_Corn_392.jpg)
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![Students use a punch to collect samples from several corn plants in each plot at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Agronomy and Horticulture research fields at 84th and Havelock. The leaf punches will be tested for high throughput RNA and will be tested across it's 30,000 genes and almost 300 metabolites. The student workers are testing the plants as part of James Schnable's research group. July 8, 2020. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/200708_Corn_391.jpg)
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![Sierra Conway uses a punch to collect samples from the leaves of several corn plants in each plot at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Agronomy and Horticulture research fields at 84th and Havelock. The leaf punches will be tested for high throughput RNA and will be tested across it's 30,000 genes and almost 300 metabolites. The student workers are testing the plants as part of James Schnable's research group. July 8, 2020. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.](styles/square_thumbnail/public/photos/200708_Corn_352.jpg)
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