BOTANIC-1: a series of long-context plant genomic foundation models in the agentic era
Amélie Barozet, Vincent Cabeli, Jean Ogier du Terrail, Alexey Rukhovich, Thomas Janssoone, Gary Klajer, Zeinab Sheikhitarghi, Gregory Andrews, Cyril Véran, Léonard Strouk
Bidirectional Mamba2 plant genomic language models (318M to 3.2B parameters) trained on 320 land-plant genomes top a 22-task frozen-model aggregate; a small variant reaches 131,072 bp context.
bioRxiv · Sep 23, 2026 · PreprintPlant Biology✦ In-depth digest