| Speaker |
Topic |
| SESSION 3: High-throughput Phenotyping | Chairs: Anne Brown, Bayer and Danny Singh, Iowa State Uni. |
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| Alencar Xavier, Corteva | An introduction to scalable multivariate and megavariate |
| Britt Ousterhout, Bayer Crop Science | From pixels to performance |
| Joscif Raigne, Iowa State Uni. | Drone and satellite-based phenotyping in soybean variety development |
| Feng Li, Uni. of Missouri | Lightweight edge AI model for drought-introduced soybean wilting classification |
| Pappu Yadav, SDSU | 3D phenotyping of soybean with AI, RGB-D sensor and PhenAI-Bot in greenhouse |
| Coffee Break |
| SESSION 4: Nutritional Imbalance | Chairs: Leah McHale, Ohio State Uni. & Gunvant Patil, Texas Tech Uni. |
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| Ivan Baxter, Danforth | A comparative approach for selecting orthologous candidate genes underlying signal in genome-wide association studies across multiple species |
| Gunvant Patil, Texas Tech Uni. | Improving nutrient uptake through plant microbe interactions |
| Michelle Graham, USDA-ARS | Identification and characterization of novel iron stress tolerance genes from soybean: A resource for crop improvement |
| Mather Khan, Uni. of Missouri | Iron Homeostasis in Plants: Molecular insights and applications for nutritional enhancement |
| Carrie Dottey, NDSU | Breeding for enhanced N fixation under low water conditions to protect soybean yields |
| Lunch |
| Session 5: Abiotic Stress | Chairs: Caio Cannella Vieira, Uni. of Arkansas & Walid Sadok, Uni. of Minnesota |
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| Henry Nguyen, Uni. of Missouri | Mapping and characterization of QTL controlling flood tolerance and root plasticity in soybean |
| Danny Singh, Iowa State Uni. | Advancing research and breeding: Diverse platforms for abiotic stress screening |
| Felix Fritschi, Uni. of Missouri | TBD |
| Arianna Spellman-Kruse, Iowa State Uni. | Genomic analysis of soybean roots for heat tolerance associated genes and lncRNAs |
| Alvaro Sanz-Saez, Auburn Uni. | Understanding the effects of elevated CO2 on soybean performance and seed nutrient concentration |
| Caio Canella-Vieira. Uni. of Arkansas | Breeding soybean for season-long flood tolerance |
| Coffee Break |
| SESSION 6: Presentations selected from submitted abstracts |
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| Venkata Hemanth, Purdue Uni. | Modeling temporal biomass and GxE in soybean using UAS-RGB phenotyping and random regression genomics |
| Mauro Martinez, Uni. of Illinois | Crop growth models calibration and use in a soybean breeding pipeline: Preliminary results Uni. of Illinois |
| Shizhe Liang, Uni. of Georgia | AI-enabled genomic prediction and implementation to support soybean breeding |
| Poster Session & Social Hour | 2026 Poster Winners |