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Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding

Asheesh K. Singh'S Projects

Asheesh K. Singh's Projects

  • soybean pod

    A significant portion of our research effort focuses on the identification of useful parental soybean strains in the breeding program, for which we leverage genome-wide association mapping and genomic prediction. PI: Singh A.K. Funding: Iowa Soybean Association, R. F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding, Monsanto Chair in Soybean Breeding, Iowa Soybean Research Center.

  • field plots aerial view

    We develop strategies for a cost effective breeding and phenomics program, produce more yield per unit land, and enable cross-disciplinary teams and collaborations between plant breeding, engineering, analytics, and agronomy to positively impact farmers, breeders, and the seed industry. PI: Singh A.K. Funding: Iowa Soybean Association, R. F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding, Monsanto Chair in Soybean Breeding, USDA-AFRI, Plant Sciences Institute.

     

  • Soybean root

    Because of the difficulty of phenotyping and analysis, root traits often are not considered in plant breeding selection practices. The advent of computer vision and ML-enabled trait extraction and measurement have renewed the interest in utilizing root traits for genetic enhancement to develop robust and resilient cultivars. The goal of the project is to make phenotyping portable and achieving ML-enabled feature extraction of root traits, and implement them in genetic studies and breeding applications. PI: Singh A.K. Funding: Iowa Soybean Research Center, Plant Sciences Institute, R F Baker Center for Plant Breeding, Iowa Soybean Association, Monsanto Chair in Soybean Breeding.

  • Soybean early maturity

    Human rating of visual symptoms has remained the predominant method for plant stress identification and measurement. This is a tedious process and requires specialized training of those making the assessment. Even then, scalability remains an issue and data collection suffer from inter- and intra-rater variabilities. Our group works in a collaborative initiative to address and solve these issues using ML methods. PI: Singh A.K. Funding: Iowa Soybean Association, R. F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding, Monsanto Chair in Soybean Breeding, USDA-AFRI, Plant Sciences Institute.